*Technically*, this is very cool, impressive, and generally an elegant work of art. *Pragmatically*, I see 2 flaws in their thesis (as explained on the about page): >> "The entire network already consumes 10% of global electricity production with traffic doubling roughly every 2 years" I think the implication is electricity consumption will also double roughly every 2 years, but Moore's law actually operates on appro…
Check out the upcoming ATX power consumption and compare it to what we're using currently... What you said was true for a very long time, but Moore's law has slowed down a lot over the last 5yrs and power consumption has increased significantly, and is about to become unreasonable in my opinion. Maximum power draw of 2.4 kw for about to 10% of the uptime is ... sadly going to be reality soon.
It is not the first time it has happened, and then went down again. It's just one of the usual "cycles".