Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

is nuclear war considered to happen outside or inside?

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

What single catastrophic event (because that is all the media will ever really respond to) would the Times and Atlantic start to say, "Actually, let's just start spraying sulfur dioxide now. It's cheap and who knows maybe it'll work!!"?

quote:

"We're trying to digitize coal," said Rogers, the chief strategy officer of Blockware Solutions, a bitcoin mining giant that is expanding rapidly in eastern Kentucky.

Over the past year Rogers, a former venture capitalist, has been crisscrossing Appalachia, on the hunt for new bitcoin mining sites - and the power to run them.

When the planned construction is done, the facility will create up to three bitcoins per day - worth over $100,000, all the while sucking more power than all the houses in Belfry combined, based on estimates from Blockware Solutions.

[...]

"I don't see anyone who can compete with Kentucky in bitcoin mining," said state senator Brandon Smith, who has travelled the world pitching Kentucky as a prime location for mining operations.

In 2021 Smith - who chairs the natural resources committee in the state senate - spearheaded a package of tax incentives for bitcoin miners. The law was signed by the governor in March.

It could cost Kentucky taxpayers about $9 million a year in lost tax revenue - though bitcoin proponents say that will be outweighed by the broader economic benefits the industry brings, such as jobs and out-of-state investment.

[...]

"We don't have clean water in parts of Appalachia - but now I have million-dollar bitcoin mines? What is going on here?" said Nina McCoy, a retired biology teacher in Inez.

[...]

Up the hill from her house, on a reclaimed surface coal mine, lies a hulking metal trash incinerator.

It will burn and gasify municipal waste trucked in from across the country, creating energy that local bitcoin miners plan to divert to their operations.

After years of experimenting, the waste-to-energy technology is now ready for prime time, said John Burke, a former coal mine operator who co-owns the facility.

It will soon start generating more than 7 megawatts of power per month, he said - enough to initially power about 1,000 homes.

Once a bitcoin mine being set up around the plant becomes operational, the power will instead be routed to it, said Wes Hamilton, a local businessman.

[...]

As part of Kentucky's drive to woo bitcoin miners, legislation written by Smith allows miners who invest more than a million dollars in the state to have their sales taxes waived.

Smith said owning his own bitcoin operation did not run afoul of any state ethics rules, and that he got personally involved in the industry to "put my money where my mouth was" as he pitched the state as a hub for investors.

[...]

"There is no limit to the amount of capital that can be extracted from stranded energy now that bitcoin mining is at play," [Hodl Tarantula] said, standing at the site of a mine he has built in the middle of the woods in southeast Kentucky.

Complications posted:

Good news, everyone. The coal plant in New York that was repurposed for bitcoin has been so profitable that it's spreading. Kentucky is the lucky number one state for the ongoing rush.

Complications posted:

Good news, everyone. The coal plant in New York that was repurposed for bitcoin has been so profitable that it's spreading. Kentucky is the lucky number one state for the ongoing rush.

Cloks posted:

oh hell yeah just burning immense quantities of energy to produce ????

BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

they were already doing that but this is more efficient with fewer transmission lines between the CO2 output and ????

Cup Runneth Over posted:

how many cars idling to solve rubik's cubes is this

The Article posted:

With its fossil fuel-heavy energy supply, Kentucky produces more carbon from cryptocurrency mining than any other U.S. state, according to economist Alex de Vries, the lead author of a February paper published in the scientific journal Joule.

He estimates the state's carbon footprint at 3.1 megatons of carbon dioxide a year, the equivalent of running 650,000 passenger vehicles, according to EPA estimates.

Complications posted:

Cloks posted:

at least we made a lot of ????

Cloks posted:

at least we made a lot of ????

bedpan posted:

economic activity happens indoors so who cares what happens outside?

Chamale posted:

Do you remember the study this is from? I keep thinking about how stupid it was

Mola Yam posted:

something like 90 tons of ancient plant life to make one gallon of gas

it would be happy to know it died for such things

bedpan posted:

genius economist said that whatever happens outside the door of my climate controlled home or office is utterly irrelevant.

And they are right! On a personal level. Extend that thinking to an entire planet, like they did, and the problems quickly become apparent. That is, if you think there exists any value, any necessity, any resource outside of aristocrats sitting around polished table in an air-conditioned office.

Every experience of their life has proven their conceptions of society to be correct. Every aspect of the world around them, the risk/reward mechanisms, consequences good or bad, laws, or social norms, etc. again and again and again show the person who dismisses climate change as the outdoor temperature gaining a few degrees, and nothing more, is the smart and sensible one.

Doctor Jeep posted:

clicking an ad that says "come and see" and ending up on this thread's very own logorrheic's blog

joe patmos posted:

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1503787076164243461

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1503787076164243461

Complications posted:

Good news, everyone. The coal plant in New York that was repurposed for bitcoin has been so profitable that it's spreading. Kentucky is the lucky number one state for the ongoing rush.

quote:

It could cost Kentucky taxpayers about $9 million a year in lost tax revenue - though bitcoin proponents say that will be outweighed by the broader economic benefits the industry brings, such as jobs and out-of-state investment.

lollontee posted:

now thats a tight sphincter

ELTON JOHN posted:

lol conservatives believing in multiplier effect but only when it destroys the environment

kater posted:

yes the industrial revolution doomed the world but without it only like 1 in 10 of anyone would be alive so you probably wouldn’t have a voice to complain with.

kater posted:

yes the industrial revolution doomed the world but without it only like 1 in 10 of anyone would be alive so you probably wouldn’t have a voice to complain with.

SplitSoul posted:

Six Hundred and Twenty-Five Quadrillion Americans

tiberion02 posted:

Come on in, the water's fine (and hot)

https://twitter.com/dadastrumdrang/status/1503786975333036032

quote:

Emergency information No abnormalities (6th report) Impact of an earthquake off Fukushima Prefecture

mediaphage posted:

blue ocean! blue ocean! blue ocean! blue ocean!

BLUE OCEAN!!!

TeenageArchipelago posted:

its the ocean! its supposed to be blue!