Other research ranges from 40% to 75%.īitcoin mining is extremely competitive, and miners can locate their rigs anywhere in the world where power is cheap or stranded: for example, hydroelectric power in Iceland, or wind and solar power in Texas.
The Bitcoin Mining Council now estimates the energy mix is up to 59.5% renewable. It is also important to note that bitcoin mining's sustainable energy usage is growing every year. 9 letter writer's question of whether someone can explain why crypto mining with its massive use of electricity is a good thing.īitcoin mining represents less than 0.5% of the world's electricity consumption and secures a worldwide digital network that has never been hacked and that now has more than 100 million users, many of whom live in countries with double-digit or triple-digit inflation and where their personal property may be subject to seizure by authoritarian regimes. It's already barren.ĬRYPTOCURRENCY MINING Yes, it's a good thing I love the moon - it's one of my favorite elements of nature.
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But I tried to enjoy this morning by getting out for my walk while the big full moon was still in the sky. I hope I see a Poweshiek skipperling butterfly someday. This last year I watched a big tract of land in Champlin, where my grandson and I used to see turkeys and red-tailed hawks, get eaten up by many one-story industrial buildings and their parking lots. Yet major construction sites continue to eat up habitat, adding asphalt and cement by the acre. Habitat loss for countless creatures, cutting down trees needed to soak up CO2 and provide shade, all contribute not only to species extinction but also to the heat island we now call the Twin Cities. And yet that is only one part of the problem. It has baffled me that conversations about climate change seem to focus, however late and however little, on reducing carbon emissions. The ways the human race has altered the Earth so carelessly, as if cutting down forests, paving over prairies, draining wetlands, using harmful chemicals in our air, soil and water, as if this would never catch up with us: Well, it has. How touching the efforts of Cale Nordmeyer and Erik Runquist to care about these tiny creatures and want to save them. 9) about the disappearance of the Poweshiek skipperling butterfly from the Minnesota landscape.
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What a moving, thorough and thoroughly heart-breaking story you have told in the article "Can they come back?" (an installment of the occasional series "Vanishing North," Oct. Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day.
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