[dschn_dstryr]

I don't quite reach that number. According to Landauer's principle the minimum energy required to flip a bit is 0.0172 eV. Times 2^128 is ~10^18 J. The first google result for boiling all oceans puts it around 10^29 J. Even at realistic energy values for current hardware (10 fJ), we are still 5 orders of magnitude short of boiling all oceans.

[ilyagr]

Seems like if we keep boiling, that's about what it takes to boil lake Baikal.

[drivingmenuts]

> we are still 5 orders of magnitude short of boiling all oceans.

Well, there goes that startup idea ...

[pygy_]

That was thus marketing BS, thanks for doing the math :-)