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Indonesia mainly runs on thermal power, it is kind of sad that those crypto currencies indirectly encourage making profits out of cheap labor and the planet its
by gbin 13y ago
Indonesia mainly runs on thermal power, it is kind of sad that those crypto currencies indirectly encourage making profits out of cheap labor and the planet itself.
source wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Indonesia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Ind...
- aianus 13y agoOn the flip side, since the network doesn't care where the miners live, for-profit mining will end up happening in countries with an abundance of hard-to-transport cheap renewable energy.
- nl 13y agoErr... If Indonesia uses thermal power then using the electricity generated from it has little negative environmental impact. Additionally I'm unclear where anything is "making profits from cheap labor". The miner benefits from the low cost of living in Jakarta, but making that out to be a bad thing is like complaining that housing in Kansas isn't as expensive as New York.
- EdwardDiego 13y ago> If Indonesia uses thermal power then using the electricity generated from it has little negative environmental impact. Thermal as in burning fossil fuels, not geothermal.
- alcari 13y ago"Thermal power" is a rather misleading term. It refers to power generation by steam turbines, but doesn't describe the heat source. Nuclear power plants and solar thermal electric plants are "thermal power", but don't emit CO2 in large quantities.