Keks3000
Keks3000 t1_itgfsno wrote
Reply to comment by owaalkes in China is building a 40 gigawatt offshore wind farm, the biggest power plant in existence by mutherhrg
Offshore is more than twice as consistent than onshore though, I think it's something like 30% full load hours? So the 43 GWpeak might translate into somewhere between 12 and 15 GW I assume.
Keks3000 t1_it4gt7p wrote
The speed of the decline is the same as the speed of the gain, it's an about order of magnitude, times three. It looks different in the graph but the graph is misleading.
If you're talking about relative gains/losses you should use a logarithmic base.
Cuz if you wanna work back up from 0.03 to 1 it will take you a year as well at that rate.
And if you wanna crash from down 37 to 1 that will also take you a year.
Keks3000 t1_j88700f wrote
Reply to comment by Northern-Canadian in PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline in 30 Years by diacewrb
The operations that are needed to calculate (or rather guess) the keys required to mine new blocks on the blockchain are best run on graphics cards, hence the demand created by crypto, and the price hikes that came with it.
I’m not sure why that is the case though, maybe someone can explain how a GPU is better suited for the job than a CPU. I think it somehow has to do with CPUs focusing on parallelization and energy efficiency in recent years, while GPUs are more like raw power work horses.