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This is currently playing out with solar panels. They get cheaper and you need fewer for the same production, which increases demand and that continues the cycl
by skrebbel 3y ago
This is currently playing out with solar panels. They get cheaper and you need fewer for the same production, which increases demand and that continues the cycle.
Just pointing this out cause the example linked is coal (bad) but it also works for things that are generally thought of as good.
- rozab 3y agoI guess the implicit point the poster was getting at (and there always seems to be one when people post wikipedia articles on HN) is that the massive increases in compute efficiency (ops per watt) have lead to massively increased power consumption, often in pointless applications like crypto mining
- skrebbel 3y agoYeah but if that fuels increasing innovation and scale in solar panel manufacturing then it’s still bottom line a good effect.