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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by joshmarlow on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:02PM (#27198575)
It's mentioned in the whitepaper - https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/

> Note that in the future, it is likely that Ethereum will switch to a proof-of-stake model for security, reducing the issuance requirement to somewhere between zero and 0.05X per year.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by baby on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:31PM (#27204219)
Interesting, in any case I don’t think any decision was made to ease the transition at the time.
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