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> It is not necessary for crypto PoW to be powered by CO2 emitting fuels. It can be powered with renewables. That's completely irrelevant for the correlation.
by jhgb 5y ago
> It is not necessary for crypto PoW to be powered by CO2 emitting fuels. It can be powered with renewables.
That's completely irrelevant for the correlation. Renewables are theta-bound by fossil fuels, and fossil fuels are theta-bound by renewables. Only at zero emissions for a source this would stop being true. This is first semester math.
- throwaway19841 5y ago> Only at zero emissions for a source this would stop being true There are plenty of crypto operations that have their own, renewable power sources that operate in a closed zero emission fashion.
- jhgb 5y ago> renewable power sources that operate in a closed zero emission fashion If you mean operational emissions, then this is a trivial statement. If you mean total emissions, then this is a wrong statement, unless these people manufactured their own generators using zero emissions in the process.