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Note: 210 (EH/s) * 5.792222 (kWH/EH) = 1216 kWH/s

1 kWH/s = 3,600,000 Watts = 3.6 MW

1216 (kWH/s) * 3.6 (MW) = 4,400 MW = 4.4 Gigawatts

"GREAT SCOTT!"

That happens to be the capacity of only four average nuclear reactors.

All of the bitcoin mining power in the world could easily be served by a single nuclear power plant like France's Cattenom

Do we really need to keep wringing our hands over the "inefficiency" of POW?

Its 5.9722 (kWH/EH), not 5.7922 so...

$15,291/BTC for electricity

4.5 GigaWatts worldwide power usage

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