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| @@ -25,6 +25,44 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost. Newest first.</p> |
| <th>Est. CO₂e</th> |
| <th>Roughly equivalent to</th> |
| </tr> |
| +<tr> |
| + <td>July 26, 2026</td> |
| + <td>“Switching from Claude to GPT-OSS on my gaming rig in the home office.”</td> |
| + <td>Switched to a local open‑source LLM running on an RTX 3090 GPU. No data leaves home and energy per prompt is roughly 2 Wh.</td> |
| + <td>~2 Wh</td> |
| + <td>~0.8 g</td> |
| + <td>A half‑hour of a 5 W LED bulb</td> |
| +</tr> |
| +<tr> |
| + <td>July 25, 2026</td> |
| + <td>“Remove all the formatting. Just use semantic HTML tags. I don't want any formatting.”</td> |
| + <td>Stripped the blog post of every CSS class, stylesheet link, Stimulus controller, |
| + and <em>/<strong> formatting — just bare <code><article></code>, <code><p></code>, |
| + <code><a></code>.</td> |
| + <td>~5 Wh</td> |
| + <td>~2 g</td> |
| + <td>Four minutes of a smartphone charging</td> |
| +</tr> |
| +<tr> |
| + <td>July 25, 2026</td> |
| + <td>“Can the post get a back link to the homepage?”</td> |
| + <td>Added a plain <code><nav></code> with a “← Home” anchor at the top |
| + of the post.</td> |
| + <td>~3 Wh</td> |
| + <td>~1 g</td> |
| + <td>Ten seconds of an e-bike motor</td> |
| +</tr> |
| +<tr> |
| + <td>July 25, 2026</td> |
| + <td>“Let's add a "blog post" to the "Writing"” |
| + — and I wrote the wording.</td> |
| + <td>Publishing Paul's first proper blog post: “Using an LLM ‘off-the-grid’&rdquo. |
| + Also added a link under the Writing section on the index page.<br> |
| + <i>(Committed as <a href="https://github.com/paulca/paulca.com/commit/aa30a29">aa30a29</a>)</i></td> |
| + <td>~15 Wh</td> |
| + <td>~6 g</td> |
| + <td>A full phone charge, then a little more</td> |
| +</tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>July 21, 2026</td> |
| <td>“Prompts should be sorted bottom up not top down”</td> |
| @@ -101,8 +139,8 @@ estimate of the energy and carbon the AI work cost. Newest first.</p> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| -<p><b>Running total:</b> ~85 Wh, ~34 g CO₂e — just shy of the energy it |
| -takes to boil a litre of water, or the emissions of driving a petrol car about 200 |
| +<p><b>Running total:</b> ~110 Wh, ~44 g CO₂e — just shy of the energy it takes to boil a litre of water, or the emissions of driving a petrol car about 260 metres.</p> |
| +takes to boil a litre of water, or the emissions of driving a petrol car about 260 |
| metres.</p> |
| <h2>Method</h2> |