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Benefits claimed from demand shifting #223

Open dschien opened 3 months ago

dschien commented 3 months ago

I have a concern about how the benefits claimed from demand shifting.

In the section https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/carbon-awareness/#demand-shifting the phrase "Studies show these actions can result in 45% to 99% carbon reductions depending on the number of renewables powering the grid." points to a study from 2011 that is presenting modelling results from a theoretical model. The current framing suggests that the savings lie between 45 to 99% - which is not what the study said.

I suggest that this is being updated. I think referencing this study is already problematic, given it's age.

russelltrow commented 3 months ago

Referenced study: Putting_a_CO2_figure_on_a_piece_of_computation.pdf

russelltrow commented 3 months ago

@greenhsu123 are you able to respond to @dschien please?

greenhsu123 commented 3 months ago

Hi @dschien, thank you for your feedback. We agree that the studies is not as recent as we would like, but it still conveys what we intended, which is that demand shifting is one of the very low hanging fruits in the space that can result in significant carbon reduction. We will put a pin on your suggestion as we currently are not doing any major updates on the content.