Re:Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then C...
by woodruffw on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:48AM
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"Recycling" a coal power plant by turning it on again is one of the more tortured uses of that word I've seen recently.
It's similarly not a "CO2 offset": the offset is latent in the plant remaining dormant, or possibly being scrapped. By turning the plant back on, these miners have converted a CO2 offset into an ongoing source of CO2 emissions.
It's similarly not a "CO2 offset": the offset is latent in the plant remaining dormant, or possibly being scrapped. By turning the plant back on, these miners have converted a CO2 offset into an ongoing source of CO2 emissions.