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Re:New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption by dragonwriter on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:12AM (#17091975)
Forcing other use on the same grid to come from fossil fuel plants that would not need to operate at the same capacity without the Bitcoin operation.
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Re:New study quantifies Bitcoin’s ludicrous energy consumption by akvadrako on Thursday May 17, 2018 @03:30PM (#17094676)
I don't really think so - I think China built dams in places with too much capacity and it's cheap because it's not in high demand.
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