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I remember reading somewhere that because Ternary computing is inherently reversible, that from an information theoretic point of view that ternary computations have a lower theoretical bound on energy usage, and as such could be a way to bypass heat dissipation problems in chips built with ultra-high density, large size, and high computational load.

I wasn't knowledgeable enough to evaluate that claim at the time, and I'm still not.

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Here's a couple of sources that back up what I was talking about:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9200021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle