RESEARCH & SOURCES
- Eric Elliott “NFTs are VERY GOOD for the environment”
- The Next Web "Sophia the robot ‘created’ an NFT artwork and it sold for almost $700K"
- Ten Hundred “My Art Almost Destroyed the Environment: The Dark Side of NFTs & Crypto Art”
- SuperRare “No, CryptoArtists Aren’t Harming The Planet”
- Loopify “The Big Problem with NFTs: Energy Consumption”
- Memo Akten “The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of Crypto Art”
- Wired “NFTs are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate”
- Cheddar Now “How NFTs and Crypto Art Impact The Environment”
- Unchained Podcast “Why This Environmentalist Doesn’t Blame Creators for the Carbon Footprint of NFTs”
3D RENDERING
800 watts an hour for 3D rendering. 19kWh per day. Average NFT is 38-48kWh, so 2-3 days of rendering = 1 NFT transaction.
- Source: Andrew Price, Blender Guru
- Source: Render Street Blog
T-SHIRT PRODUCTION & NFTS
It takes about 494 kWh to make just one cotton t-shirt. 200 cotton shirts would be 98,800 kWh, which equals energy consumption of the average American home in 8 years or 2,058 ETH transactions. (This does not include printing, shipping, etc for customized shirts). CO2 emissions from t-shirts: 2.1kg per shirt. 420kg per 200 shirts. 1 NFT transaction is 28kg CO2.
Source: World Wildlife Fund “Impact of a Cotton T-Shirt”
NFT TRANSACTIONS
Important to note that this is for a single transaction for an NFT. Memo Atkin analyzed ~1,800 NFTs and found, with all the transactions, which can include: Minting, Bids, Canceled Bids, Sales and Transfer of Ownership, that the average is: 340kWh and 211kg CO2. But again, this is still half the footprint of the cost of producing 200 cotton t-shirts.
Source: Memo Akten “The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of Crypto Art”
ALTCHAINS MENTIONED
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