Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing

[Abdulhaq]

On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 21:26:15 UTC, Arun wrote:
> "Educators may want to reconsider teaching Python to University 
> students. There are plenty environmentally friendly 
> alternatives."
>
> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiwghkHWkAEzbMx?format=jpg
>
> Python is the more CO2-intensive and less efficient of the 
> languages in astronomy, argues 
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11295v1.pdf

This is a very important subject, thanks for bringing it up. This 
could be a real killer feature for D as the world population 
grows and our dependency on computing increases.

>
> Bit coin mining could probably the worst offender here, but who 
> doesn't like money!?

But is Bitcoin money!?