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Re:Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna ... by bamboozled on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:30PM (#27441117)
Solar is the cheapest form of energy generation in 2021 [1], it's for political reasons fossil fuels are a cheaper.

You should be more concerned that your government hasn't banned coal power generation.

[1] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-01-03/solar-now-chea...

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Re:Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna ... by pavlov on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:37PM (#27441216)
If solar was the cheapest, then Bitcoin would be replacing other actually productive energy consumers and forcing them to fossil sources. So getting rid of Bitcoin would still be positive.
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Re:Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna ... by bamboozled on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:39PM (#27441244)
You can't just get rid of people doing calculations on computers, it's not going to happen without some pretty authoritarian, dystopian hell.

The problem needs to be solved at the source, burning fossil fuels needs to be stopped, today!

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