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You are the opposite side of the climate denier coin - someone who thinks conceding any reasonable point means you'll be giving up your overall belief in climate change. As I said, I believe in man-made climate change so your entire post was misdirected.
I'm fully on-board with climate change science and many of its predictions. Where it loses me though are the micro-prognostications, where it claims to predict precise changes to complex biological ecosystems. There are simply too many variables to make these types of calls.
They calculated the difference in energy consumption but failed to factor in the orders-of-magnitude difference of NAND performance via HDDs. To wit, an HDD will spend much more if its time at peak power consumption during I/O vs SSDs, by function of how much longer it takes complete the I/O. And that doesn't even factor in the additional power consumption from keeping the system running longer to complete I/O-bound workloads for a given user task.