Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by simonw on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:43AM
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No it doesn't.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by chrischattin on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:47AM
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Yeah, it does. I posted sources in a reply to another comment. Or, you can look it up yourself.
Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by simonw on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:03PM
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You quoted https://thefactsource.com/how-much-electricity-does-youtube-... which says:
"the internet uses 10% of the total electricity consumption worldwide. How much of that is consumed by Youtube? After Netflix and embedded videos, Youtube is the third biggest global internet bandwidth eater. About 11.4% of global internet traffic is consumed by Youtube"
That figure assumes that the electricity usage of the internet is exactly related to the amount of bandwidth - so if YouTube uses 11.4% of the internet's total bandwidth, that means that YouTube uses 11.4% of the internet's total electricity consumption.
That is a highly dubious assumption.