Ethereum is green
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The unit of energy we’ll use in this post is the kilowatt-hour (kWh). This quantity is called “one unit” on electricity bills, and it costs a domestic user about 12 cents in the US.

A 10,000 mAh power bank is able to run 10 validators (including Geth + Rocket Pool) on a Raspberry Pi for 10 hours.

The Pi consumes 5 watts, so that comes to around 0.1 KWh’s of energy per day for 10 validators, or 0.01KWh per validator.

That 3600x more energy efficient than Bitcoin PoW, or, put another way, a 99.97% reduction in power.

  • null_radixOP
    41·
    4 years ago

    What is considered a waste is also subjective and a personal sympathy as well. You can indeed send ETH without pow although its still just testing. Pow is on its way out. period. How am I being misleading?

    • tracyspcyM
      1·
      4 years ago

      looks like a very hard case here 🤦🤦🤦 if you are talking of potential improvement or sandbox you should mention that in title, otherwise you use misleading title, reading that people may think ETH is green because it use pos, but it is wrong.