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Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C... by eganist on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @03:52PM (#15760511)
> probably closer to ~15 TWh/year

or 1.71ish gigawatts -- https://www.google.com/search?q=15+terawatt+hours+per+year+t...

I'm pretty impressed google handled that conversion. I mathed it out independently but not even wolframalpha got it.

Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C... by majewsky on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:12PM (#15760695)
Since we're talking about energy consumption, you can get the same result without involving dozens of servers by typing this in your Unix terminal:

  $ units -v "15 TWh/year" "GW"
         15 TWh/year = 1.7111933 GW
         15 TWh/year = (1 / 0.58438752) GW
Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C... by stefco_ on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:42PM (#15761956)
I've always suspected such a tool must exist in a typical *nix environment but never bothered to search for it. This is very helpful. Thanks for the simple example!
Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C... by majewsky on Thursday November 23, 2017 @03:20AM (#15763658)
There's also an interactive mode if you leave out the positional arguments. That's my go-to CLI calculator, it knows enough arithmetic and the understanding of units is a nice bonus.
Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C... by kelnos on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:14PM (#15761150)
Wolfram Alpha did ok for me on my first try: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=15+TWh%2Fyr+in+GW
Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C... by eganist on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @06:08PM (#15761502)
That might be why. I typed it out as 15 terawatt hours per year to gigawatts
Re:Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many C... by zulln on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:25PM (#15762115)