The world is running out of sand (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/permacomputing

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I can hardly believe I’m not joking. And there’s chatter that “we are addicted to sand” (like the oil mantra).

Permacomputing people can rejoice.. our community will grow because of this.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 14 points 8 months ago

I support your effort to spread the message about the sand shortage

But I do have to tell you that the construction industry consumes 50 billion metric tons of sand a year and the semiconductor industry makes $650 billion... so every computer chip would have to cost 10 cents and be made completely of silicon and weigh 7 kg each in order to have parity with sand consumption for concrete. I think the price of sand is just gonna go up and they're still gonna keep making new ones. 😢

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