commit 9a5051603b7dd144b8974df5330f1c0f7b17b49e
parent ea1cbb88fd86aeb81a5ddfc8fea0ddf6ff94e756
Author: viznut_web <viznut_web@web>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:51:23 +0200
empty web commit
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Solar_Protocol.mdwn b/Solar_Protocol.mdwn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
**Solar Protocol** is a project that connects solar-powered [[WWW]] servers from around the globe, redirecting traffic to a server that has solar power available (i.e. the part of the globe where the sun is shining).
-A problem with Solar Protocol is that it either neglects the energy requirements of the [[Internet]] infrastructure that lies between the solar-powered servers, or takes it as a constant that only depends on the amount of transferred data. However, we can be fairly sure that routing a packet across the world takes much more energy than routing it across a country.
+A problem with Solar Protocol is that it either neglects the energy requirements of the [[Internet]] infrastructure that lies between the solar-powered servers and the users, or takes them as a constant that only depends on the amount of transferred data. However, we can be fairly sure that routing a packet across the world takes much more energy than routing it across a country.
If the power consumption of a server is small to begin with, its "greenness" may very well get negated by a bad routing decision. It may very well be "greener" to just route a user to nearby grid-powered data center than to a solar-powered server on the other side of the world.
