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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by melling on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @10:57AM (#29810552)
In the 1980’s I imagine the United States was emitting 10 times as much as China on an absolute basis.

However, as Carl Sagan warned, China had huge coal reserves and they put them to use.

Other countries are doing the same , of course.

Hence global coal usage for power generation is at records.

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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by timeon on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:35AM (#29811156)
From global point of view if there is demand for energy they will burn the coal. New sources of energy are not replacing the old ones, just covering new demand. You can point to any country while missing where the demand is coming from.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-energy-200-years

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