A lake in upstate New York heats up due to bitcoin mining
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WhiteLightning
Moderator
climate change because of bitcoin mining :Sadge:
cryohellinc
Crypto has to be banned globally - problem solved
Devid
I've heard Pluto is cold enough, miners should try to move there...or just ban the whole thing and call it a day.
Undying
After all lets hope this will be the last cryptoboom and wont have to worry about it in the future.
Maddness
Mineria
NvidiaFreak650
And cool down with heavy rain.
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Sylencer
Weekend
Stairmand
You've got to love the fact they chose to use the amount of water we boil in England for Tea as a metric for energy use.
Noisiv
say residents
if we were paying attention what locals say, you wouldn't have a single industry size operation on this planet
a quick calculation says that this particular mining operation can raise the temperature of its allotted water volume by 0.5 Celsius - at maximum
[spoiler]
8000 BTC miners
1500 W (highest power miner available)
Total power = 12,000,000 W
being cooled with 500,000,000 L per day
and assuming that nothing but water takes away the heat produced(unrealistically worst case scenario).
500,000,000 L / 24h
water intake flow = 5787 L/second = 5,787,000 g/s
Delta temp = Energy/water flow
12,000,000 W / 5,787,000 g/s = 2.07 J/g*s
You need 4.16 Joules to raise the temperature of 1 g of water for 1 Celsius. Meaning this mining operation is increasing their allotted water volume of 500 million liters for 2.07/4.16 = 0.5 Celsius
Lake Seneca water volume = 15.9 km3 = 16 000 000 000 m3 = 16 000 000 000 000 L
divide that volume with 500,000,000 Liters allotted per day = 32,000
Meaning that left on its own it takes 32,000 day = 87 years to raise Seneca Lake temperature for 0.5 Celsius. [/spoiler]
This allotted water volume being 32,000 smaller than the lake volume, it's amazing how residents are able not only to feel this increase but discern it from the surrounding things like weather, Sun and heat waves 😎
cliffgamerz
Valken
I wonder if the floods will raise those shallow mass graves who died from coronavirus like it did in India? Or maybe float off the cooling trucks with bodies waiting to be buried?
Just epic what bitcoin mining can do...
SHS
wantobe
Wow, how many people are feeling hurt about bitcoin, I wonder why?
Is it because of the graphics cards? o_O
I will stir up a few nests here...
@cryohellinc What else would be good to ban Globally? I don't think there is a single thing in the world that is outlawed globally. I am wrong actually, going outside for a walk just very recently.
@Undying I think it's a crypto flop at the moment and yet another boom is coming as long as more people are talking about it 🙂
@Sylencer Go to proper work and potentially still can't afford to own a roof under your head in their lifetimes but be good soldiers and keep paying bills that go up annually more than the income?
Noisiv
Brit90
cryohellinc
FatBoyNL
illrigger
I love how people still think crypto is fake money. Or rather that normal money is more real than crypto.
My house (which we paid $200,000 for in 2012) has gone up in value by over $200,000 in the last year. Just by existing, no improvements, nothing new built nearby, nothing - it's all because people want to live around here more than they used to. And people insist that this money is "real", but crypto isn't.