# Frugal Computing: Energy-sufficient development

**URL:** <https://discuss.coding.social/t/frugal-computing-energy-sufficient-development/176>\
**Category:** SX solution development\
**Tags:** challenge\
**Created:** [November 1, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/frugal-computing-energy-sufficient-development/176 "2022-11-01T15:43:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/frugal-computing-energy-sufficient-development/176/1 "2022-11-01T15:43:25Z")

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This topic is not completely formed in my mind. Nevertheless I feel it is important to discuss it.

Since a while I’m reading Oxymoron newsletter:

> **[Will we set our own boundaries?](https://tomgreenwood.substack.com/p/will-we-set-our-own-boundaries)**
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> Tikopia lies in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.

It’s something I think I started once I learned about the Bits & Bäume Conference (in German: bits-und-baeume dot org )

Basically, taking into account the energy consumption of the code we write. I’m not sure how to do this right now. Perhaps with something like this npm module?

> **[GitHub - thegreenwebfoundation/co2.js: An npm module for accessing the green web API, and...](https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/co2.js/)**
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> An npm module for accessing the green web API, and estimating the carbon emissions from using digital services

In fact, we already see that older devices struggle with „modern” web apps, because of Andy and Bill’s Law. Perhaps we can do better?

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**Author:** ![Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/user_avatar/discuss.coding.social/ryuno-ki/32/44_2.png) [@Ryuno-Ki](https://discuss.coding.social/u/Ryuno-Ki)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.coding.social/t/frugal-computing-energy-sufficient-development/176/2 "2022-11-05T20:50:09Z")

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On Social Coding matrix channel, indieterminacy introduced me to [http://solarprotocol.net/](http://solarprotocol.net/) today.  
Basically, a network of solar powered servers where the server with the most sunshine is responding to a request.

Might be an approach for services, that don’t have a high expectation on availability?

We had an April’s Fools joke about some Mastodon instances in this direction this year 🙂