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by tptacek 1504 days ago
The list includes Sweden, Norway, Argentina, the Netherlands, the UAE, the Philippines, Finland, Belgium, Pakistan, Austria, the Czech Republic, Israel, Switzerland, and Singapore, among (obviously) many others. I don't think that statistic was the mic drop you thought it was.

But sure, let's give them all 111TWh hydroelectric dams.
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juliusdavies 1504 days ago
The Site C damn in British Columbia (5.1TWh) has been under construction since 2015 with a 2025 completion forecast. Estimated cost: $12.3 billion (USD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_C_dam

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gus_massa 1504 days ago
Can you remove Argentina from the list? :)

I'll copy an old comment by me, and the 2 parents comments for context. It was posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420667 (8 months ago)

>>> So let's use the article's figure of 140 TWh of power used per year. Let's compare that to domestic energy usage by country https://yearbook.enerdata.net/electricity/electricity-domest.... That's more than Argentina and about half of what the UK uses.

>> From https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/ .

>> Bitcoin would be the 27th most energy using country: ahead of Argentina (30), Sweden (29), and Ukraine (28); just below and about to overtake Malaysia (26), and below Egypt (25) and Poland (24).

> A big chunk of our economy in Argentina is transforming sunlight into soybeans. So we should add it. Just imagine that we covered all the Pampa with solar panels and then use that energy to ... illuminate hydroponic soy.

> From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Argentina#Produ... the cultivated area is 250.000km^2 . Let's assume 1000W/m^2 and a 10% of efficiency, 12 hours of sun per day, and 1/3 of the year of grow of the plants. Then I get 36.5TWh https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=250.000km%5E2+*1000W%2... (I had to guess a lot of things. I'd love to see a more accurate calculation.)

> So with an additional energy of 36.5TWh, we jump from 132.7TWh to 169.2TWh that is more than the value of Poland 168.8TWh. (But other countries may want to add their solar->plants power too.)

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