Renewable energy doesn't reverse climate change, at best it just *doesn't add* to it A 100% perfectly renewable Bitcoin mining grid has the exact same impact on humanity's carbon footprint as just not mining Bitcoin at all
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The power consumption of the grid HAS TO scale with the size of the economy Burning those terawatts into waste heat is the only way to keep the system honest or it all collapses It locks us into the global energy demand crisis being eternally unsolvable
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I can't tell you how angry it makes me that I'm as certain as I am that goddamned crypto-mining is going to be what kills us all.
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People who think drowning entire valleys for hydro power is "clean energy" don't understand anything about ecology.
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Plus all power solutions have up front costs in concrete, steel and whatever else you’re building it from
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When you do the cost/benefit analysis for the creation of generating capacity, some applications are likelier than others to justify the damage. Mining BC is not one of them.
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