Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than Many Countries

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

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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!

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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.

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