The Solana Foundation has launched a real-time carbon emissions tracking dashboard.
Burning a gallon of gasoline, according to the chart, produces the equivalent of conducting 140,416.67 transactions on the Solana blockchain, whereas performing a Google search adds up to one and a quarter transactions.open source and is modeled on the estimated carbon footprint of the Dell PowerEdge R940.
Whether other blockchain outfits will adopt similar tracking systems remains to be seen, but this move from the Solana Foundation comes amid increasing global efforts to utilize blockchain technology to monitor carbon emissions around the world. As part of its “Shaping Europe’s digital future” initiative, the European Commission, a politically independent arm of the EU’s executive that operates in tandem with the European Council, has lauded blockchain’s ability to serve as a foundation for the accurate measurement of carbon emissions in any sector.
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