Miners run their own power plant

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

That is not the issue here. The issue is that this thing is like a cancerous growth. Would you allow a tumor to grow in your body because "well, other organs are also getting their energy"?

The comedy of such short sighted post's.

So the fiat system of hundreds of counties setting up and creating physical printed money, the massive networked computational backend, armed diesel guzling vehicles to move it round etc etc and exchanges, IS WORSE imho, we could control the emission of one plant how many armered cash trucks are there, in the UK you often have a cop car following too.

Fiat£#g delusional, the present way sucks environmental ass toooo.

 

[TheUn4seen]

This thread is hilarious, it's like reading Luddite fanatical ramblings again. Or the anti-lift lobby. Or this, just as electricity was introduced to the cities:

The arguments are of the same quality, "hurr-durr, me no understand, me no likey". Do you want to be a touchy, virtue signalling hippie? Start sweating like a pig and go to war with air conditioning, it uses several times the power crypto mining does. In fact, according to IEA, there are around ten new household AC units being sold every second and it will remain one of the biggest drivers behind global electricity usage increase for the next 30 years. Crypto mining barely even registers on the global scale (around half a percent if memory serves me well)
I know some of you are butthurt because you missed your chance to earn money on cryptocurrencies, I get it. I sold several dozen Bitcoin when they reached ~300USD and it was the worst financial decision I made in my entire life. Don't take your frustration out on everyone though.

Air conditioning use emerges as one of the key drivers of global electricity-demand growth - News - IEA

Air conditioning use emerges as one of the key drivers of global electricity-demand growth - News from the International Energy Agency

www.iea.org

 

[seth1911]

A Coal Power Plant for mining BTC, but i think its a scam even the Plant got delivered by Trucks with Coal nah no reason that makes no sense its to expensive.

Look on the Railtracks they are cut off


They use a dead Coal Plant with normal Electricitiy connection to make adversiting

 

[Shrek]

I think it runs on natural gas.

 

[TheEndIsNear]

Nuclear is the ultimate clean power source, pretty safe too as long as it's not mismanaged.

Not even close. I worked at one. I'd rather have carbon in the air than Nuclear waste around for 1,000's of years. The design was made this way to produce nuclear weapon fuel. The were working on making a molten salt reactor that can never melt down but the DOD took away all funding and boom we got these ticking time bombs instead. I live 10 miles from the oldest reactor in the U.S. My dad worked a ton out on the reactors and turbines there and he says it's a ticking time bomb. He even moved lol. It's older than I am and I'm 50. Anything this dangerous that needs constant cooling water is probably the stupidest design they could've gone with. I worked in the power industry most of my life and you couldn't pay me enough to work out there. I think China is working on a molten salt design.

 

[cst1992]

China is working on a molten salt design

The aforementioned thorium reactor.

How far from thorium generation?

At least a few years. It's still in the experimental stage.

what is the waste product?

U-233 and plutonium.