[agumonkey]

Because history made us build structures and lifestyles that require oil class energy density. We surely don't need it since we were born without. We don't need all of this. Not to that extent, we could cut worldwide transportation. We could eat less. Rethink housing. Even internet[1].

I'd like to see the time when energy will lack.

Sometimes I wonder how we could rebootstrap technology in a frugal manner. Have shelter, a bit of comfort, a predictable enough supply not to worry too much.

[1] just the other day I put a gif on imgur, 1Million views, a few TB of bandwidth.. I felt bad. So much for this. And that's not the most viewed, nor the longest. Imagine how much is used everyday.

[feld]

Don't feel bad. You did not waste any measurable amount of electricity. We constantly waste electricity by not utilizing the networks we have built to their full capacity.

(Ignoring that servers being busier without a good caching infrastructure tends to ramp up resource usage and pull more power)

[agumonkey]

Even considering end point caching I feel bad. Good point about networks being already on anyway.

[djrogers]

> just the other day I put a gif on imgur, 1Million views, a few TB of bandwidth..

Umm, exactly how big was that gif? One of those numbers doesn't match up with the other...

[agumonkey]

It's an imgur transcoded video into gif[v]. You made me doubt it was GB, but here are the stats they show:

Name: unknown Views: 1,773,652 Submitted: 2 months ago Bandwidth: 94.01 TB

http://imgur.com/k3nRmaM