Solana or Google; Which ecosystem is less environmentally friendly?
The Solana Foundation recently published a report showing that two simple Google searches require more energy than one transaction on the Solana network. The foundation also has plans to reduce its grid energy consumption before the start of the new year.
to the Report Crypto Potito, Solana, has recently made a name for itself as a viable alternative to a set of blockchains. Not only is this network efficient in transactions, but it is also less environmentally friendly than Google services.
Since the carbon footprint of assets based on the Proof of Work algorithm has come under the microscope, Solana’s latest report on energy consumption in November shows the emergence of a whole new trend that drives digital currencies to less environmental damage.
The Solana Foundation recently published a report emphasizing that each transaction in this network consumes 0.00051 kWh, or 1,836 joules of energy. In this report, Solana mentions activities that consume more energy compared to this network to clarify the issue.
A simple Google search, for example, consumes about 1,080 joules of energy. This means that doing two Google searches consumes more energy than doing one transaction on Solana’s network.
This is not the end of the story, and as it turns out, Solana’s transactions require 24 times less energy than charging a cell phone battery. The network also consumes less power than the energy needed to keep an LED lamp on for an hour. Such an activity requires 36,000 joules of energy. That’s less than an hour of computer and monitor work consuming 46,800 joules of energy.
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Interestingly, the Solana grid consumes a total of about 3,186,000 kWh of energy annually. This is equivalent to the average electricity consumption of 986 households in the United States.
Officials around the world, meanwhile, are at odds over how to minimize carbon emissions. For the digital currency sector, the Solana Foundation seems keen to work on carbon emission problems.
The Solana Foundation has promised to further reduce the ecological impact of its ecosystem. Solana’s plans for the remaining days of 2021 include the introduction of a plan to neutralize the carbon of Solana’s accreditation network and compensate for the ecosystem.
In addition, the foundation has said it will publish periodic reports on its project energy consumption. In short, Solana seems to be a faster and less expensive alternative to Atrium. Atrium continues to face the problem of high gas prices and high grid power consumption. It can be said that now the main competition between these two ecosystems is to provide an efficient and environmentally friendly technology.
Solana is not the only ecosystem that is working hard to reduce its environmental damage. From Ripple to Avalanche and Neon Labs, several platforms are trying to save energy.