Zipper environmental sustainability

It would be hard to measure but hopefully as wee are moving towards renewable energy it would be not that bad, but one can only hope.

I would like to know the environmental footprint of Dalvik and ART compared to native execution.

@Giacomo Di Giacomo

2620mA/h * 3.7v = 9.7 Watt/hour

If we are 50000, then the maximum consumption of all Jolla phones is less then 500 KW/h each day. Ethereum used more than 30'000'000 KW/h yesterday, so more than 60'000 times more.

Or, there are 2.3 billion smartphone worldwide consuming 10Watts per day, that's 23'000'000 KW/h. So Ethereum is consuming more than all smartphones combined.

Ethereum doesn't solely run Zipper though, it runs many things. I would also expect the Zipper stuff to be optional and not at all required on a sailfish device if you're concerned about energy consumption of the Ethereum network

@tomtom Actually I was referring to the added power spent running apps on virtual machines rather than natively, so it should be a fraction of all smartphone power. Nevertheless, your calculation makes sense: 2.3 x 10^9 x 10 Wh (assuming one full charge per day) means 23 GWh or about 1 GW average. This means that one single nuclear power plant (the largest in the world) is enough to power all smartphones in the world.