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Description
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calls 'code red' for the environment, we are rapidly building tools to track the environmental impacts of Filecoin and verifiably decarbonize. Learn about the work we've done so far, toolsets soon to be released, and the path forward in building a more sustainable network.
A
Hi,
my
name
is
alan
ransall
and
I'm
gonna
be
talking
about
follow.
Coin
green
and
I
I
wanted
to
open
with
this
graph
here,
which
is
from
the
ipcc,
the
intergovernmental
panel
on
climate
change,
which
is
responsible
for
some
of
the
most
rigorous
most
peer-reviewed
science
in
the
history
of
science
and
what
they
say
is
that
in
this
global
context,
if
we
want
to
avoid
the
worst
impacts
of
climate
change,
we
need
to
decarbonize
very
quickly.
A
A
So
here's
a
simplified
view
of
the
filecoin
value
chain
right
sort
of
in
general,
you
have
these
inputs.
One
of
the
major
inputs
is
electricity.
Other
inputs
are
hardware.
They
go
into
the
world's
largest
distributed
file
storage
network.
That
file
storage
network
provides
this
this
useful
resource
to
the
web3
community,
being
storage,
and
then
clients
are
able
to
use
that
storage
right,
and
so
our
thought
on
follow.
Coin
green
is:
how
can
we
nucleate
technologies
within
the
filecoin
network
that
allow
this
sort
of
behavior
of
the
network
to
emerge?
A
A
So
what
if
it
just
became
a
standard
in
web
3
that
every
interaction
you
have
you
know
what
the
environmental
impact
of
that
interaction
is
and
you're
able
to
take
action
to
reduce
and
mitigate
it.
Then.
The
second
part
of
the
tools
that
we're
building
are:
are
that
other
piece
right,
reducing
and
mitigating
that.
So,
if
you
know
what
the
environmental
impact
is,
what
actions
can
you
take
in
order
to
reduce
that
impact?
And
in
doing
this,
how
can
we
transform
filecoin
itself
into
a
network
that
does
verifiable
environmental
good?
So
we
use
energy?
A
Maybe
we
buy
more
renewable
energy
than
we're
actually
using
and
we're
going
to
talk
about
that.
Maybe
we
we
know
what
the
embodied
emissions
of
our
hardware
is.
Can
we
do
better
than
than
zero?
Can
we
do
better
than
net
zero
and
make
all
of
that
impact
truly
verifiable
right,
because
that's
how
we
work
with
data
right,
we
want
data
to
be
verifiable.
We
want
data
to
be
interoperable,
so
we
want
to
be
able
to
trace
these
environmental
impacts
and
things
that
we're
doing
to
reduce
and
mitigate
them.
A
Many
levels
throughout
the
value
chain,
and
so
why
should
filecoin
be
the
world's
greatest
blockchain?
So
one
one
answer
is
that
falcoin's
design
itself
is
conducive
to
carbon
accounting
right.
So
this
is
a
really
important
point:
when
storage
providers
are
contributing
capacity
to
the
network,
their
their
their
impact
on
the
network
right,
they're,
contributing
that
capacity
contributes
to
the
emergent
behavior
of
this
network,
which
is
to
produce
this.
This
massive
amount
of
file,
storage
right,
but
the
services
provided
by
individual
storage
providers
are
non-fungible
right.
A
So
you
can
you
can
look
at
all
the
different
storage
providers
that
are
offering
to
store
your
data
and
you
can
decide
who
you
want
to
start
with
than
your
in
your
deal,
and
so
that
provides
this
really
transparent
point
in
which
to
connect
environmental
impacts
from
individual
story
provider
operations
to
individual,
minor
ids
and
deals
on
that
minor
id
right,
which
is
not
a
design
feature
that
a
lot
of
other
blockchains
have
then.
Secondly,
the
world
needs
a
merkle
forest
of
forests.
A
Then
third,
we
use
a
lot
of
energy
and
we
use
it
on
purpose
right,
so
largely
blockchains
that
have
made
strong
environmental
claims
fall
into
two
sort
of
categories.
One
category
is
blockchains
that
don't
use
a
lot
of
energy
because
of
their
consensus
mechanism
right
and
they
they
can
buy
renewable
energy.
A
We
really
want
these
environmental
impacts
to
be
traceable
and
unambiguously
verifiable
right
and
filecoin
is
going
to
use
a
lot
of
energy
and
also
makes
a
commitment
to
verifiability
right,
we're
building
the
storage
layer
for
the
decentralized
web
right.
So
that's
just
going
to
take
a
lot
of
energy.
A
So
you
know
here
are
these
three
sort
of
steps.
First,
we
have
to
measure
environmental
impact.
Secondly,
we
have
to
reduce
and
mitigate
that
impact
and
third,
we
have
to
connect
with
communities
outside
of
our
own
community
and
also
make
more
connections
within
this
community
to
really
build
a
green
file
coin
movement.
A
So
this
dashboard
is
is
relevant
to
that
first
section
which
is
measuring.
So
this
is
data
that
is
going
to
be
released
in
the
next
couple
weeks,
we've
been
working
really
hard
to
use
on-chain
proofs
in
order
to
estimate
what
the
electricity
use
of
the
filecoin
network
is.
We've
put
all
that
information
into
this
dashboard
and
there's
there's
a
bunch
of
important
features
here,
I'm
going
to
run
through
a
few
of
them.
A
Firstly,
you
can
see
that
the
energy
used
to
seal
sectors
and
then
the
energy
used
to
store
data
over
time
are
the
main
components
of
filecoin
energy
use.
So
so
that
makes
a
certain
amount
of
sense
for
each
of
these
bounds
here
or
for
each
of
these
variables,
we've
calculated
an
upper
bound,
a
lower
bound
and
an
estimate,
and
so
that
is
based
on
data
from
a
bunch
of
different
sources.
A
So
it's
based
on
benchmarks,
it's
based
on
surveys,
it's
based
on
interviews
with
individual
storage
providers,
where
we've
really
understood
their
operations
and
are
energy
use,
and
it's
it's
also
built
on
direct
measurements
of
energy
use
from
storage
provider
operations
right.
So
we've
combined
that
information
into
a
model
and
we're
going
to
be
working
hard
to
improve
that
model
over
time.
Make
that
model
really
transparent,
make
the
data
available.
A
Currently,
we
think
that
filecoin
uses
about
130
megawatts
of
power,
which
is
a
significant
amount
of
power.
It's
about
one
percent
of
what
bitcoin
uses
and
you
can
compare
that
to
global
data.
Centers
and
say:
okay,
filecoin
uses
about
a
half
a
percent
of
the
electricity
that
data
centers
across
the
world,
use
it
also
stores
about
half
a
percent
of
the
data
that
data
centers
across
the
world
store,
and
so
that's
that's
roughly
in
line
right,
so
so
filecoin
we
shouldn't
think
of
filecoin
as
being
a
dramatically.
A
A
Now
the
really
powerful
thing
about
this
dashboard
is
that
you
can
look
up
individual
storage
providers
and
see
in
a
granular
way,
based
on
that
storage
provider's
activity
on
the
network.
What
their
energy
use
is
right,
so
you
type
in
the
storage
provider.
You
can
see
how
much
energy
they
took
to
steal
sectors
over
time
store
sectors
over
time,
their
total
energy
use,
which
includes
things
like
estimates
for
cooling
and
power
conversion
losses,
and
then
you
can
also
export
all
of
this
data
for
all
of
these
graphs
at
the
epic
time
scale.
A
So
at
the
block
time
scale
which
gives
us
this
really
granular
information
that
we
can
use
to
explore
how
filecoin
interacts
with
electricity
markets.
So
the
second
part
here
is
to
reduce
and
mitigate
these
impacts.
So
this
is
how
renewable
energy
markets
work.
I
didn't
design
them.
This
is
just
how
they
work
right
now,
when
a
a
renewable
energy
producer.
So,
for
example,
a
solar
farm
or
a
wind
farm
produces
renewable
energy,
the
electrons
go
into
the
power
grid.
The
renewable
energy
attributes
are
collected
and
packaged
into
something
called
a
renewable
energy
certificate.
A
A
That's
just
the
industry
standard
definition
there,
and
so
what
we
did
is
we
worked
with
amazing
partners
at
the
energy
web
foundation
who
are
building
this
platform
called
energy
web
zero
that
we're
hoping
to
support,
and
we
got
together
a
group
of
storage
providers
who
were
interested
in
proving
that
they
used
renewable
energy.
What
we
did
is
we
got
them.
A
So
we
took
that
upper
bound
for
each
of
these
storage
providers.
We
had
them
buy
renewable
energy
credits
on
the
energy
web
zero
platform
and
we
added
this
column
to
the
reputation
system
fill
rep
which,
as
you
can
see
here,
shows
the
amount
of
renewable
energy
purchased.
That's
tied
to
an
individual
miner
id
right.
You
can
click
that
link
and
go
to
the
energy
web,
zero
verification
page
where
you
can
see
information
about
that
rec
transaction.
So
you
can
see
when
the
wrecks
were
produced.
A
You
can
see
which
miner
id
purchased
them
and
then,
if
you
click
that
link
in
the
bottom
right
hand
corner
of
the
energy
web
zero
page,
you
can
see
the
actual
certificate
issued
by
the
local
rec
registry.
It's
the
local,
renewable
energy
credit
registry,
that's
tracking,
renewable
energy
production,
and
you
can
see
that
that
wreck
was
redeemed
to
that
file
coin
storage
provider.
You
can
also
see
exactly
where
that
renewable
energy
was
produced.
In
many
cases
you
can
get
gps
coordinates.
A
The
information
that
you
have
depends
on
just
what
the
local
rec
registry
records,
but
this
is
the
level
of
granularity
and
verifiability
we're
talking
about
right.
So
you
can
trace
individual
deals.
Individual
storage
providers
to
renewable
energy
credits
that
are
produced
by
a
specific,
solar
or
wind
or
hydro
producer,
and
know
if
you
take
some
action
within
the
filecoin
ecosystem.
A
This
is
where
the
renewable
energy
is
coming
from
to
support
that,
so
we're
really
excited
and
think
that
this
level
of
verifiability
is
what
we
need
as
a
standard
going
forward.
You
can
read
about
this
on
a
medium
article
that
we
published
with
energy
web
there's
been
a
really
great
reception
for
this.
This
first
sort
of
foray
into
doing
this,
including
jesse
tweeted
out
that
crypto
companies
are
moving
orders
of
magnitude
faster
in
their
journey
to
decarbonize
versus
most
fortune.
500
companies
and
filecoin
is
at
the
head
of
the
pack.
A
So
we're
really
excited
about
this
and
we're
pushing
really
hard
in
this
direction
to
make
filecoin
environmentally
environmentally
positive
and
verifiable.
So
our
phase
two
demo
we're
scaling
this
up
by
more
than
a
factor
of
a
hundred
we're
gonna
buy
renewable
energy
at
a
gigawatt-hour
scale,
which
is
a
huge
amount
of
renewable
energy.
It's
also
better.
So
what
I
mean
by
that
is
that
the
industry
standard
is
that
you
purchase
renewable
energy
that
corresponds
to
the
year
when
you
consumed
it
or
six
months
before
that
year
or
three
months
after
that
year.
Right.
A
So
what
we're
showing
here
in
this
new
demo
is
that
we
can
do
a
better
job
and
try
to
push
toward
shorter
accounting
periods,
where
you
have
this
closer
match
between
renewable
energy
production
and
consumption,
and
that's
something
we
can
do,
because
we
have
this
really
granular,
really
good
data
on
how
much
energy
we're
using
and
when
so.
Thirdly,
we
need
to
to
connect
with
others
in
this
space.
So
a
really
great
way
to
do
that
is
through
the
crypto
climate
accord.
A
The
crypto
climate
accord,
which
protocol
labs
and
the
file
coin
foundation,
are
both
part
of
aims
to
achieve
net
zero,
so
net
zero
carbon
emissions
for
signatories
of
the
climate
accord
by
2030
and
to
build
tools
to
make
all
of
crypto
industry-wide
verifiably
green
by
2040
right,
and
we
we
really
think
this
is
a.
This
is
a
great
place
to
help
contribute
to
standards
in
this
industry
as
they're
being
developed
and
to
push
to
make
these
tools
really
accessible
and
easy
to
use.
A
So
a
ton
of
people
have
been
involved
in
this
work.
People
in
the
pl
ecosystem
angie
has
really
catalyzed
a
lot
of
this
and
and
connected
research
that
we've
been
doing
to
what
the
ecosystem
needs
right
now.
Kale
research.
I
worked
with
michael
hammersley
for
a
long
time
on
these
questions.
Evan
mizono
catalyzed
a
bunch
of
the
the
research
that
formed
the
basis
of
what
we're
doing
now.
The
sendal
team
has
given
us
a
ton
of
data,
we're
working
with
a
reputation
system
team
to
tie
in
renewable
energy
attributes
into
the
reputation
system.
A
A
ton
of
storage
providers
are
super
supportive
and
participating
in
all
of
this.
The
falcoin
foundation
has
been
has
been
helping
us
with
a
lot
of
this
and
helping
us
develop
tools.
Other
organizations,
the
energy
web
foundation,
is
the
farthest
along
in
building
web
3
native
tools
for
working
with
renewable
energy
credits
and
other
environmental
attributes
in
a
really
granular
way.
The
cryptoclimate
accord
three
degrees
were,
as
I
said,
funding
academic
research
to
measure
the
energy
impact
of
distributed
systems
and
build
new
tools
for
that
with
with
harold
franken
who's.
A
A
professor
in
the
the
open
university
in
the
netherlands,
and
so
the
last
thing
is,
is
please
get
involved?
So
if
you
want
to
be
part
of
this
community
and
you're
on
file
coin
slack,
you
can
join
the
phil
green
channel,
which
is
where
we're
talking
a
lot
of
these
tools.
It's
where
these
tools
are
going
to
be
announced
as
they're
released.
It's
where
new
demonstration
projects,
new
opportunities
to
buy
recs
are
going
to
be
announced,
and
it's
where
we're
collaborating
to
figure
out
what
needs
to
be
built
in
order
to
support
this
vision
right.
A
What
tools
do
we
need
in
order
to
just
make
it
standard
throughout
crypto
and
throughout
web
3?
That,
when
you
take
some
action,
assuming
everyone
involved
in
that
value
chain
is
on
board
with
this.
The
environmental
impacts
of
your
action
are
just
transparent
to
you
and
the
the
additional
actions
that
you
can
take
in
order
to
reduce
or
mitigate
those
environmental
impacts
are
also
transparent
to
you.
So
what
tools
need
to
be
built
in
order
to
to
build
that?
That's
something
we're
discussing
on
that
channel.
A
If
you're
a
storage
provider,
please
start
using
these
tools
as
they
come
out
check
your
energy
use
against
the
dashboard,
which
is
going
to
be
available
in
a
few
weeks
and
participate
in
our
our
our
next
round
of
purchasing
rex
and
energy
web
zero,
we're
hoping
to
open
that
up
to
any
storage
provider.
Who
wants
to
do
that
in
quarter
one
of
next
year,
if
you're
a
developer,
please
hack,
green
with
us.
A
Please
think
about
how
the
these
tools
can
be
used
to
trace
environmental
impacts
through
whatever
you're
building,
and
please
help
us
think
about
how
to
build
new
tools
to
make
that
whole
environmental
accounting
system
more
robust
and
built
into
web3,
and
then,
if
you're
in
an
organization.
Please
join
the
crypto
climate
accord
and
help
us
make
crypto
green.
Thank
you.