Where does your frame sit?
A picojoule isn't very meaningful in isolation. The thermometer below
anchors the receipts on physical landmarks: the Landauer floor
(kT·ln 2 at room temperature, the lower bound for one bit
of irreversible work), a single floating-point multiply-add on commodity
silicon, one second of microwave, and one kilometre in an electric car.
Your last measured frame — averaged across every exhibit you've opened on this device — is plotted as the live marker (white, on the right). Each exhibit drops a cyan dot at its per-frame energy as you open it. The receipt is computed in your browser against the Landauer floor and a TDP envelope. Nothing is uploaded.
The violet dots on the left are the canonical mgai-meter receipt — one per cascade tier, baked in at build time from the substrate's pinned reading. They show where each tier's representative operation sits regardless of which device the page is viewed on.
How to read it
- Vertical axis is energy in joules, on a log scale spanning 29 decades.
- Each landmark is a single, neutral, physically anchored quantity. Sources: Landauer 1961 / Bennett 1982 for the floor; gravitational potential energy
m·g·hfor the 1 kg lift; 1.2 kW × 1 s for the microwave-second; ~150 Wh/km is in the published range for current production EVs. - Your frame marker is the median
E_tdp / frameacross every exhibit you've opened on this device, read fromlocalStorage. The page does not upload anything; refresh after browsing more exhibits to see it shift. - The receipt method is
tdp_estimate + landauer_floor— there is no live energy counter in a browser tab. how this is measured.