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Ethereum Energy Numbers are in! Moral calculations and web 3 critiques with Kyle McDonald
🕑 Added 2021-12-17 10:53:05 +0000 UTCBig one this week, artist and researcher Kyle McDonald did the gruelling work to calculate the energy and carbon cost of Ethereum, and we try to break down those numbers, calculate their relative impact, discuss critiques of web 3 and debate why they are mostly coming from where they are coming from.
Ethereum Emissions: https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/
Kyle's art: https://kylemcdonald.net/
Follow Kyle: https://twitter.com/kcimc
Who Pays Artists?: http://www.whopaysartists.com/
People staring at computers: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/people-staring-at-computers/
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What a wonderful episode! Coinciding with the topic I'm releasing my first music NFT next week, and I want to prepare for potential discussions about the energy consumption aspect. I've done some basic Google searches and learned that Netflix consumes 94 TWh annually, while the Polygon blockchain consumes only 0.00079 TWh. Obviously the user baseline is very different, and I wish I had something more tangible, such as "one hour of Netflix consumes xyz TWh, while one NFT minted on the Polygon network consumes xyz TWh. Do you have any suggestions where I could find such figures?
Mat
cheers! Exactly, the hope is that clarifying this kind of information creates conditions where sane arguments are possible, which is not the case on twitter sadly
Excellent. How wonderful to hear people with differing views having constructive conversations like these. You’re absolutely right that this kind of dialogue/trialogue couldn’t/wouldn’t happen on twitter. How refreshing! It does raise some difficult questions, and I’m not quite sure what my own attempts at the answers should be, but at the very least, the research manages to define the parameters of those questions a little more clearly.
