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> Let’s not ignore pretty much the entire world changing revolution of EVs Elon sure did. He decided, apparently out of pure greed, to invest big into Bitcoin,
by user-the-name 6y ago
> Let’s not ignore pretty much the entire world changing revolution of EVs
Elon sure did. He decided, apparently out of pure greed, to invest big into Bitcoin, driving the price up and with it increasing the carbon emissions of it, enough to quickly wipe out basically all carbon savings Tesla has worked to achieve for its entire company lifetime.
- fastball 6y agoBitcoin can be entirely powered by (renewably sourced) electricity. Our current financial system cannot.
- user-the-name 6y agoIt can, and when it does, it destroys that energy, and forces other users to use polluting energy. The environmental cost of Bitcoin is not that of the energy it uses, it is the cost of the dirtiest energy it forces others to use.
- fastball 6y agoWe should all be using nuclear anyway.
- user-the-name 6y agoEven if we did, that is not non-polluting energy. Wasting it in massive amounts would still harm everyone.
- fastball 6y agoNuclear is definitely non-polluting energy.
- user-the-name 6y agoBuilding the plant and mining the uranium, doing upkeep on the plant, and decommissioning it and processing the fuel are not non-polluting. There is always pollution. Some forms of energy have more and some have less. It is never good to just waste energy, that will always cause excess pollution, no matter the type of energy used.
- fastball 6y agoOk, sure, but by that standard nuclear is by far the least polluting per watt.
- user-the-name 6y agoSure. But it still pollutes, and wasting the energy it produces is still harmful. It doesn't matter how energy is produced, bitcoin will always be harmful.