> The exact same amount that got burnt on a slow cheap day

How much is that? And what percentage of it went toward powering this event vs the value in $ created by it?

> And orders of magnitude less energy than bitcoin uses.

It's not even 1 order of magnitude less. More like 1/2 of bitcoin's energy consumption.

https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption/

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/