Solar Protocol

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25 pointsbeardicus5 comments

discussion a few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441520

Do you save any fossil energy sending a web request around the world to where the Sun shines considering the cost to send the data?

I remember reading that distributing a video games to an XBox One via internet releases more carbon into the atmosphere than distributing the game via a Blu-Ray.

The amount of energy required to send a bit per mile might be irreducible in the end or at least not scalable the way the CMOS microprocessor has been.

> I remember reading that distributing a video games to an XBox One via internet releases more carbon into the atmosphere than distributing the game via a Blu-Ray.

Without a source, I'd have to say that this smells incorrect -- I would really love to see the origin of this thought.

It is a pointless comparison, both methods contribution to global CO2 emissions is absurdly minuscule.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/downloaded-games-have-a-larger-carbo...

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