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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by Barrin92 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:09AM (#32848174)
usual comparison was that the energy consumption is comparable to nations like the Netherlands or Finland, so seems about right.
Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ollifi on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:38AM (#32848487)
There is lot of talk and debate about building wind, nuclear doing the green transition etc. in Finland. I guess like in every country. Somehow it makes me sad that group of open source developers could do more today than we ever can to help the planet no matter how much we scale back.

Although they built the hell machine in the first place, so maybe better if they would not have ever done anything.

Re:The Ethereum merge is done by OJFord on Thursday September 15, 2022 @03:59AM (#32848680)
Well, in that perspective 'green production' seems like the right thing to be talking about (vs. cutting usage, say) - if you over-produce you can always export, selling 'green' energy to a country that might otherwise have been buying 'brown'.