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virgo_eye
on Feb 23, 2021
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I heat my home by mining crypto currencies
No, essentially 100% of energy used for computation will turn into 'waste' heat.
If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.
medstrom
on Feb 23, 2021
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Just turning chaos into order takes thermodynamic work, but I was wildly off with my percentages. Thinking in terms of an idealized computer that doesn't create heat, but didn't realize how far we were from that.
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If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.