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>Would you expect a paper on COVID mortality also discuss heart disease and ALS? Of course not. Power consumption and power production are simply directly rela
by throwaway20875 6y ago
>Would you expect a paper on COVID mortality also discuss heart disease and ALS? Of course not.
Power consumption and power production are simply directly related. Your clumsy attempt at an analogy here really misses the mark.
The root cause of this issue is our power production isn't clean enough, and therefore consumption drives pollution. What do you address first - the demand or the supply?
It's quite simply amazing to see so little ability to grasp anything beyond immediate consequences of a problem, particularly on a site like this.
- jf22 6y agoPerhaps you are extending the discussion far past the point I was trying to make in a single sentence. Discussing things with people on hacker news is frustrating because people like you extend the argument to way way way past the point at hand. All of a sudden we are talking about clean energy deployment, not that BitCoin mining is using a lot of power and resources.