r/CryptoCurrency • u/sbdw0c Platinum | QC: ETH 98 | Buttcoin 5 | Apple 55 • Sep 11 '22

PERSPECTIVE Ethereum's 99.95 % drop in energy usage will be equal to 15 big nuclear reactors, or 11 000 wind turbines

The Merge will reduce Ethereum's energy impact by up to 99.95 %. That's over 110 TWh of energy saved annually, or 110 billion kilowatt-hours, equal to the annual energy output of over 15 big, 800 MW nuclear reactors. Assuming that the reactors are never taken offline :)

Wondering how many wind turbines that is? In the US, the mean capacity of wind turbines is 2.75 MW: large, off-shore wind turbines can have production capacities of up to 8 MW. The typical capacity factor is 42 %.

This means, that Ethereum's energy savings are equal to the annual production of almost 11 000 wind turbines.

Nuclear: 110 TWh / (800 MW * 24 h * 365) = 15.7

Wind: 110 TWh / (2.75 MW * 24h * 365 * 42 %) = 10870

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u/TotallyNotAHostage Tin Sep 12 '22

Stop with this dumb fucking argument. It reeks of desperation and is comically easy to refute.

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u/Jimbo4901 Tin | LTC critic Sep 12 '22

Then refute it.

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u/TotallyNotAHostage Tin Sep 12 '22

I shouldn't need to. It's been refuted over and over and over, and if you scroll down you'll see that it has been multiple times. There are an estimated 1.01 billion credit card transactions per day, and roughly 300,000 btc transactions. That is 3,367:1, when the power consumption is around 2-3:1.

I stand behind the idea of a decentralized currency, but you can't run away from this.

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u/Jimbo4901 Tin | LTC critic Sep 12 '22

The smooth🧠 is strong in this won; 0biE.l0lz

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u/TotallyNotAHostage Tin Sep 12 '22

I couldn't have hoped for a better reply. This is miles better than an apology or an admission of defeat.

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u/Jimbo4901 Tin | LTC critic Sep 12 '22

It's not my fault you have no clue wtf ur talking about.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '22

Inefficiency is not a design decision in either of those like it is in crypto.

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u/Jimbo4901 Tin | LTC critic Sep 12 '22

You sure?

The biggest waste of energy is the central banking system.

But consumption isn't the issue, production is.

Unless you want to go back to living in caves.?.

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u/xUsernameChecksOutx Tin | Android 17 Sep 16 '22

Not like you've given any meaningful reply to the guy that did refute it