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>With Chia, anyone can farm with minimal electricity cost (after plotting).

Having a low barrier to entry probably increases negative externalities overall. Not sure what your point is.

it increases security per unit of energy significantly making the amount of energy needed to secure the network orders of magnitude smaller than bitcoin. its also asic resistant, and having a lower barrier to entry makes it so the people with 0 cost basis just filling up extra space on their drive will outcompete & push out any large data farms increasing decentralization as well.

Does this calculation include the energy needed to manufacture the drives (including all inputs)?

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