The difference is that the microwave is not as nearly as cancerous.
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Hot take, but this would be fine if power production was clean.
Microwaves use a crap-ton more power than a stove, but we use them anyway.
I don't understand these lines of headline. Where is that much power being consumed? I can probably generate a second video on my phone in a few seconds, and I doubt it's using much more power than usual. Maybe the generation is happening elsewhere.
If you put a Kill-a-Watt on the power cable coming into your PC at home, will you see a huge spike on power consumption when you generate something?
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