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I also don’t think most people realize just how much energy it uses. It is mind blowing. I remember doing some calculations a couple years ago and discovering t
by MattRix 3y ago
I also don’t think most people realize just how much energy it uses. It is mind blowing. I remember doing some calculations a couple years ago and discovering that if you took the total energy spent on mining bitcoin per year, and divided it by the number of transactions per year, each individual transaction would use more energy than driving across the entire country from New York City to San Francisco in a Tesla Model 3.
- lostlogin 3y agoAnd if you get an inverter [1], you could use a mobile rig to mine while you drive! [1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/power-inverters-for-newer-16v-outlet-cars.265365/ https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/power-inverters-for-...
- p1mrx 3y agoThis will directly subtract from your mileage, and DC charging is among the most expensive electricity in the country.
- this_user 3y agoThe entire system is just so incredibly stupid and inelegant. If you really wanted to build something like this, you could at least have designed it in a way were the work done serves an actual purpose.
- x86x87 3y agobased on the claims you are making, i do not believe you understand how it work
- x86x87 3y agoi don't understand what the actual consumption has to do with anything. That power that is used in not free - consumers actually pay for it. Unless you are suggesting that we should have regulations around what we can use power on the whole point is moot.
- selfmodruntime 3y agoThe actual point is about the inefficiency.
- x86x87 3y agodo you want to be able to get electricity? you pay for it, you use it. do you want someone to tell you how you are able to use that electricity? what's next? clutching our pearl around gas guzzlers? forbidding people to eat meat? do we want a free market or not?
- Gazoche 3y agoFree markets only work up to a point. Once you start having hidden costs that don't enter the equation, like climate change or excessive consumer prices due to supply not catching up with demand, is when other control mechanisms are needed.
- x86x87 3y agoThat's fine. If the proposal is to reexamine and change the way our society works in order to avoid the tragedy of the commons that's great. If the proposal is to arbitrarily ban something we don't like or understand that's a problem. How about the amount of power a datacenter uses? What about all this "AI" - the hardware used for training the models is very power hungry?
- MattRix 3y agoYes, sure, we can look at things on a case-by-case basis. It’s pretty easy to look at something like bitcoin and see that inefficiency is the purpose rather than the byproduct, and then make regulations about that.