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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by Wowfunhappy on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:28AM (#27316536)
> Kind of weird to think of mining as a way to reduce your carbon emissions but in some cases it certainly can be.

Have you actually done that calculation out? You say "primarily provided by", but I wonder what that means, given just how much electricity you need to actually heat a home via GPUs.

(You may of course be saving money given the profit you generate, but that's not the same thing as reducing emissions.)

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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by arsome on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:38AM (#27316688)
Well, just to give you an idea, my province typically ranges from 1-10% provided by fossil fuels and of the fossil fuels - it's just natural gas. I'm sure there's some line losses there, but I don't think they're enough to overcome the 90%+ of energy coming from other sources.

Of course, I'm not heating my entire home with a single GPU, merely offsetting a small portion of my overall heating cost.

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