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a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

i had no car my entire life and have flown 4 times (i like trains lol).

Ok, something nearly everyone does - washing clothes.

A 500W washing machine uses this amount of energy in 10.8 seconds during the spin cycle.

Using a dryer? 4.3 seconds@3000W.

If we look at the equivalent mechanical energy, lets look at your bike (you gotta eat to offset the energy loss, causing emissions through agriculture and cooking!)

You can generate a Chatbot response by pedaling ~2 minutes@100W power!

The chips are already pretty optimized, since they are in principle not different to high-end gaming GPU’s. I have a 3070 TI, and i can generate a complex response locally in under a minute @ 290W TDP, 30-40 seconds if i use something like qwen 2.5, which aligns pretty well with what i’ve said before. Playing a video game uses a lot more power.

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