10-14-2025, 03:26 PM
(10-12-2025, 08:51 PM)EXETER Wrote: For reference, the energy that humans consume every day is about .0014 % of the amount that the Sun radiates on to the Earth every day. That .0014% includes all the mining, processing, and transportation, of copper, lithium, and other materials used in power plants and all the waste heat dumped into the environment. So you could double or triple that fraction and it would still have a negligible direct effect on the warming of the atmosphere.
On the other hand, if you increased the amount of solar energy absorbed in the atmosphere by 1% by adding carbon dioxide, you would have roughly 1000 times as much effect.
Adding power plants for bitcoin mining or any other use is not a problem if you do it without burning fossil fuels.
I just read yesterday that shutting down coal fired plants are being delayed and some are being reopened because af AI increasing electrical demand.
Computers powered by coal running AI systems to help the environment? Yeh, right.
I know too much and question everything.
Does anyone know the minimum safe distance of ignorance?
Did anyone ask the monkeys how much fun the barrel actually was?
Does anyone know the minimum safe distance of ignorance?
Did anyone ask the monkeys how much fun the barrel actually was?
