Has anyone done any serious studies on electricity consumption due to cryptocurrency related activities like mining? Possibly with comparison between different currencies and feasibility of maintaining such consumption? Is there an argument to be made for or against them in the context of global warming?
You dont need to know how much electricity is being used since you csn tell by the total mining power. Just assume all gfx cards are on full since that is how they mine. So just take the average consumption of watt per hash. Its not exact but its good enough.
Why are ypu worrying about the tiny little bit GPUs are using up in electricity anyway ?
No there is no srguemwnt to be made for it about global warming. Why are you worrying about that when there people dumping toxic waste into the ocean and cutting down forests to burn the wood and coal that they mine in huge factories thst pump out this smoke all day long. GPUs sre not going to cause the Ozone layer to open up.