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Greenidge
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The company emits 641,000 tons of CO2 per year and 135 million gallons of water per day into the reservoir, with temperatures exceeding 42 degrees.
A mining station near New York made a “jacuzzi” out of a glacial lake. About it writes Ars Technica.
It is noted that this situation has developed due to the production of cryptocurrency. In particular, the Greenidge power plant, located near the village of Dresden, converted to mine cryptocurrency, dumped tens of millions of gallons of hot water into Lake Seneca. As a result, the glacial lake became very warm.
Greenidge was acquired by Atlas Holdings seven years ago and began producing electricity using natural gas instead of coal.
Then bitcoins were mined there.
As of February 2021, about 1,100 bitcoins were mined on Greenidge.
It turned out that the authorities gave the company permission to emissions 641 thousand tons of CO2 per year and 135 million gallons of water per day, the temperature of which exceeds 42 degrees.
Fresh water quality and the rainbow trout population are at risk.
“The lake is so warm that you feel like you are in a hot tub,” said locals, who gathered outside the EPA office in Avon to demand that the problem be resolved.
We will remind, earlier, under mysterious circumstances in Costa Rica,bend one of the largest Bitcoin owners in the world – 41-year-old Mircea Popescu.
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