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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.
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throwaway19841
5y ago
The fungibility argument doesn't work when you consider that not all power generation in the world is connected to the same grid. There are crypto operations that use their own renewable power infrastructure. That energy never would ha
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throwaway19841
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Sure in theory. In reality not all energy is fungible because not all power generating systems in the world are connected. If I stand up a geo-thermal farm to run my crypto mining operation that power would not have been available to the gr