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# Introduction to Ethereum's Energy Consumption {#introduction-to-ethereum-energy-consumption}

Ethereum is now on the cusp of becoming a truly low-carbon blockchain. Achieving this without sacrificing decentralization has been a major technical challenge for Ethereum developers. This page will explain why building out Ethereum to its current state has required a significant upfront carbon cost and how this will be remediated in future ugrades.
Ethereum's current energy expenditure is too high and unsustainable. Resolving energy expenditure concerns without sacrificing security and decentralization has been a significant technical challenge for Ethereum's development. Let's explore why building Ethereum has had a high environmental impact and how upcoming network upgrades will dramatically change this.
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Ethereum's current energy expenditure is too high and unsustainable.

Agree with the sentiment here but I'm not sure leading this page with a subjective statement is the right approach. It's "too high" - according to who? It's "unsustainable" - is it? Smells like someones opinion.

I'd suggest focusing more on factual statements. e.g. "Ethereum's current energy expenditure is significant - comparable to the power consumption of a small country". We could potentially link out to sources here (e.g. https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption/ though I'm not sure this is an authoritative source).

"Overall, Ethereum represents around 0.1% of global electricity" might be another useful stat for context:
https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/

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Agree.

Maybe a more high-level critique about the intro and the order, I wish the article started with explaining the reduced energy impact under PoS and then went lightly into the temporary impact we have under PoW (sort of how Carl's article did). Our current situation is temporary after all ... it's kind of like we're burying the lead by putting the PoS information at the bottom.

I think a quick remedy could be putting a tl;dr that links to Carl's article at the top, something that says like:

TL;DR: Ethereum will use at least ~99.95% less energy with the transition to Proof of Stake. Read more [here](https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/).

Would be cool if that had it's own box to stand our, sort of like on the history page:

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## Energy secures the network {energy-secures-the-network}

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