Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
by ashtonkem on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:27PM
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The issue is that energy is largely fungible, at least when limited in space and time. Occasionally renewables are over-produced and can't be transmitted elsewhere, but often every kWh of green energy wasted on bitcoin mining is a kWh of non-renewable energy that has to be created to meet other demands.
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