[Tuna-Fish]

> The comparison of bitcoin Vs AV energy usage is a bit ridiculous. No one of buying hundreds of GPUs to mine AV.

No, but they run almost everywhere.

I'd be very surprised if bitcoin mining produces even 1% of the CO2 emissions of what AV software does. Mostly because the reward from mining has been competed so low that if you have to pay normal amounts for electricity, it's nowhere near profitable, so mining mostly happens in places with very low electricity prices, such as towns in China near hydroelectric dams with massive excess production.

[a1369209993]

Sometime last year, someone had writeup where they worked out that buying enough gas (I forget if "natural" or "-oline") to mine 1 bitcoin, ignoring fixed costs like the generator or GPU, would cost them ~1.2 BTC. That might change if you live near a oil well/refinery/coal mine, but I'd kinda like to see a statistical analysis of whether bitcoin time-between-blocks varies with time of day based on which areas have excess solar power.

[dzhiurgis]

I keep wondering can you design a solar panel that uses photonic bitcoin mining. That would be ridiculously efficient.

[eli]

If you want to make money with solar seems like it’d be a lot easier to just sell the electricity back into the grid

[autonoshitbox]

Only until everyone else has them too