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by akvadrako 2955 days ago
Most of it comes from hydroelectric plants with very cheap prices.
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Forcing other use on the same grid to come from fossil fuel plants that would not need to operate at the same capacity without the Bitcoin operation.
I don't really think so - I think China built dams in places with too much capacity and it's cheap because it's not in high demand.
> Most of it comes from hydroelectric plants with very cheap prices.

Hyrdo isn't green energy. Dams block fish migrations and fuck up the surrounding ecosystem.