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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did your intuition consider the energy required to dig a trench to bury the cale in? Or putting up posts to lift the cable off the ground? I didn't consider it at first, but neither is done with climate neutral machinery.

The operational requirements are probably pretty similar, the satellites are obviously exclusively solar powered, so no contribution there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I did, but cities where most of the internet users are have very short runs, and the cabling is usually installed with the building. Also, I think I've usually seen internet run with the telephone wires in rural areas rather than in trenches.