Re:Tell HN: Coinbase now requires physical address of recipi...
by londons_explore on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:18AM
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Clearly, yes.
Building a pyramid, in the ideal case, simply requires the energy to lift each stone into place. Lifting 6.5 million tons of stone on average 40 meters (remember that most of the weight of a pyramid is at the bottom!) uses 6.5e9 * 40 * 10 Joules of energy, which is 722 MWh, which costs $144,000 in (California) electricity. Okay - thats a lot more than I expected actually...
Building a pyramid, in the ideal case, simply requires the energy to lift each stone into place. Lifting 6.5 million tons of stone on average 40 meters (remember that most of the weight of a pyramid is at the bottom!) uses 6.5e9 * 40 * 10 Joules of energy, which is 722 MWh, which costs $144,000 in (California) electricity. Okay - thats a lot more than I expected actually...