[inter_netuser]

or we can just finally admit renewables cannot supply the entire Earth, and something else needs to be in the mix too.

[gefhfffh]

Like storage systems, yeah.

Bitcoin only makes it worse, because it uses/wastes energy of which we don't have enough clean one

[inter_netuser]

Usually, when you don't have enough of something - you go and build it.

Bitcoin requires only as much power as a tiny country size of Portugal/Netherlands, less than 1% of electricity consumption globally.

Less than dishwashers, heated pools or computer games use. Perhaps we should ban these also?

If anything, we should be thankful Bitcoin exposed the inability of renewables to scale in practice.

[dmitriid]

>Bitcoin requires only as much power as a tiny country size of Portugal/Netherlands

Riiight. "Tiny".

Netherlands is number 31 and Portugal is 52 by electricity consumption out of 216 countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

To put it in context: you could power all of Argentina with the power bitcoin wastes. Big enough for you? Or Nigeria five times over (that's 200 million people times five).

[inter_netuser]

The point is, global consumption is barely 1%.

We were told renewables are cheap and plentiful, but it turns it they cannot even power 1% of the demand?

Why do reneweables scale so poorly?

[dmitriid]

You keep pushing the same false narrative pretending that this is the argument people make.

Stop.

[inter_netuser]

false in what sense?

People make the argument "it will boil the ocean". Is this not the claim, roughly speaking?

..but why is it renewables cannot service reliably and inexpensively just 1% of demand?

I have no problems with renewables, but interplanetary civilizations subsisting on windmills is just fantasy.

[gefhfffh]

So, coal, gas, nuclear and renewables don't see in practice? Solution?

Waste even more energy than we already do!