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Own your own fucking responsibility (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 31 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I prefer to think that this post is unrealistically optimistic. If you drive an electric car and live in Quebec, this could very well be true. For reference, Quebec's electric grid is just about 100% hydroelectric power, so your driving emissions would be close to 0.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I only looked at power consumption, not emissions. If the electricity produced is emissions free than the emissions for both driving and streaming would be zero. So the original statement would be true, but meaningless. But lets compare the energy consumption with an EV. At 15kwh/100km(4.14mi/kWh) the EV would need 15kwh/100km*6,44km=0.966kwh for 4 miles. That still leaves us with a power draw of 1.932KW. That is closer to a realistic but I still don't think the power consumption of streaming is that high.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    "closer to realistic" - technically, but 1 kW is just so much power, I find it hard to imagine.

    Say I was streaming from my own home server instead (about 20W, which could serve more then just one user), and over a gigabit Ethernet switch (also about 20W) which could serve a 4k streams to 50 users, but let's say it's just me). Then I would use 0.04 kW of electricity for streaming? Maybe I'm streaming from my gaming PC (0.1 kW idle) and have a large inefficient monitor (another 0.1kW). Then it sums up to 0.24 kW. We're still not close to 1 kW and I'm out of ideas.

    Granted, you'll have many more switches because this is the internet. But those won't serve just a single user so the power per user is much smaller too. And netflix servers will use more power, but they are also much better optimized for streaming than my home server, and not 90% idle, shared by many users.

    And what would you do if you weren't streaming? Would you turn off your gaming PC and monitor? If not, we can't really fully count their consumption. Maybe... ah, I've got it! You're boiling water for coffee at the same time. Yes, that would be 1kW. All the time, while streaming, one cup of water after the other non-stop.

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