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  Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared
  Critics say the enormous electricity consumption needed to sustain cryptocurrency is fueling the climate crisis and now threatens a partial resurrection of coal in the US

  Environmentalists in Montana called it the “death watch”. Following years of financial losses one of the handful of remaining coal-fired power plants in the state appeared doomed, its likely fate offering a small but noteworthy victory in the effort to avoid disastrous climate change. But then a bitcoin mining company stepped in to resurrect it.

  https://www.theguardian.com/tech…

  

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  • dont look up...neverscared
  • Lowest hanging fruit in the fight against climate change -- ban all cryptodrgs
  • ...maybe this discussion is here to slow down the mining of the remaining bitcoins. maybe it was considered in the algorithm by the coder.uan
  • not much fruit left soon if you are reckless with co2...neverscared

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