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Re:Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future by sliverstorm on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:46AM (#15858842)
If your average power plant is 500MW, that's still 26,000 power plants the world would not otherwise need.

Edit: gah, embarrassing error. It's late.

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Re:Bitcoin could cost us our clean-energy future by rgbrenner on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:53AM (#15858874)
No, you haven't converted MW to MWH. A 500MW plant produces 4.4TWH per year (assuming 100% capacity factor.. it'll be less than that depending on the type of plant). It's maybe 3.5 x 500mw nuclear plants.
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