This is pretty cool.. I like the idea, could I make a semi-snarky feature request and could we add the estimated power consumed to produce results for each session ?
How many tokens used in a heavy vibe coding day?
Average US daily per capita is like 40kg CO2
A single flight from JFK to LAX produces around 20,000kg of CO2. Using the 8.3g value means a flight is equivalent to 2.41 billion tokens.
Plastic bags, paper straws (wrapped in plastic), most realities of recycling, vehicle selections, etc.
Leads to a lot of unpopular things.
Have you walked a beach in the last decade?
Finally, most of the (local, not even thinking about the developing world) pollution is not deliberate. It blows in from other places, usually. I live rural and I'm continually picking up plastic garbage from my ditch or back forest or fields that blows in from the nearby highway and roads, especially after garbage pickup day.
Production needs to be severely curtailed.
Ultimately, individual habits do add up. But with climate, one would be hard pressed to find evidence that conservation is the path forward. It does not work, unfortunately.
For now, sure it might be ridiculously minor, but when it starts to ramp up who's to say it wont be just a ridiculous amount of energy ? Maybe not even measure the CO2, but I would love to graph the increase of energy spent over time.
So on that day you are 10x'ing the US person day
Repo is here if you're curious: https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor...
It produced a patch. Unfortunately it was for removing the emojis from the readme.
ccusage says I had 1k input tokens, 12k output and 1.2m cache create.
I'm not sure if that is 18.3g, 138.3g or 1213 * 8.3g.
At the highest number that's 10kg or 25% of average US daily per capita emission or 1 gallon of gas.
This article [0] mentions "8.3g CO2" but it's linked source [1] uses a different number - 4.32g. Perhaps revised after publication.
I ran the search again and got different numbers... I'm sure the real numbers will be changing quite a bit over time too.
[0] https://ditchcarbon.com/blog/llm-carbon-emissions
[1] https://smartly.ai/blog/the-carbon-footprint-of-chatgpt-how-...
Fair enough.
For $200 per month they’ll only use carbon-free power sources for your prompts. At $100 they’ll use nuclear, then $20 per month for coal, and then there will be a free tier where your prompts are powered by throwing baby seals into a furnace.