Ethereum’s Lifetime Energy Use Before the Merge Equaled Switzerland’s for a Year
“If I go out on the street now and ask, ‘Hey, what is 100 terawatt hours? What is six gigawatt hours?’ people don’t know,” said Neumüller in an interview with CoinDesk. “So we have tried to contextualized it in the form of pictures, specifically with the buildings and, of course, the raspberry. This makes these magnitudes very clear without an understanding of energy notations.”
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