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In many U.S. states, their primary energy generation is nuclear. This is extremely environmentally friendly, meaning no issues with OP using a bunch of power.

In many U.S. states, their primary energy generation is nuclear. This is extremely environmentally friendly, meaning no issues with OP using a bunch of power. We really need to stop demonising the use of energy. Energy is amazing. It is the reason we have seen to much prosperity in so little time. It's the backbone of our economies. Of medicine and the internet and EVs and well insulated homes. We should be doing everything we can to make energy cheaper, enabling more people to use more energy. Few things have been as damaging for climate activism than the war on energy. It's unnecessary and misses the point of the entire movement: saving the environment. Focus on cleaner sources of energy rather than demonising people using energy.

Karrot_Kream 3y ago
It's not about the energy for me. A lot of these posts make networking and homelabs seem like a dark art that only folks with tons of space, capital, and time can get into. Networking is anything but, it's about sending a packet of data over a wire! But when we glorify these elaborate, expensive setups, we not only lose focus on what the goal of a network should be (to satisfy needs for its users), we also discourage newcomers from tinkering with networks which to me is the bigger crime.
- gwbrooks 3y ago
  Or -- hear me out -- you entice newcomers who want a big ol' rack of boxes and wires. Like me.
  - Karrot_Kream 3y ago
    I guess that wouldn't have enticed me at all. The minimalism of networking is what interested me in it in the first place decades ago as a kid.
b3orn 3y ago
I looked it up, 5 US states get the majority of their electricity from nuclear power, 4 from wind, 3 from hydro. The other states use coal, natural gas and petroleum. Source: https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-generation-fuel-shares https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-g...
- ourmandave 3y ago
  Post apocalypse, that Biomass & Other column is going to mean something completely different.

Karrot_Kream 3y ago

It's not about the energy for me. A lot of these posts make networking and homelabs seem like a dark art that only folks with tons of space, capital, and time can get into. Networking is anything but, it's about sending a packet of data over a wire! But when we glorify these elaborate, expensive setups, we not only lose focus on what the goal of a network should be (to satisfy needs for its users), we also discourage newcomers from tinkering with networks which to me is the bigger crime.

gwbrooks 3y ago
Or -- hear me out -- you entice newcomers who want a big ol' rack of boxes and wires. Like me.
- Karrot_Kream 3y ago
  I guess that wouldn't have enticed me at all. The minimalism of networking is what interested me in it in the first place decades ago as a kid.

b3orn 3y ago

I looked it up, 5 US states get the majority of their electricity from nuclear power, 4 from wind, 3 from hydro. The other states use coal, natural gas and petroleum. Source: https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-generation-fuel-shares https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/state-electricity-g...

ourmandave 3y ago
Post apocalypse, that Biomass & Other column is going to mean something completely different.