Bitcoin miners are finding ever-more efficient ways to burn fossil fuels to manufacture cryptocurrency.
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Grist: This power plant stopped burning fossil fuels. Then Bitcoin came along.
On the sleepy shores of New York’s Seneca Lake, a cryptocurrency company is showing how Bitcoin can keep fossil fuel use alive.
This article was republished by Mother Jones as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
New Food Economy: The misbegotten promise of anaerobic digesters
Federal agencies and state governments are spending millions on anaerobic digesters to wring renewable energy from animal poop. But critics say “cow power” from factory farms is neither clean nor green.
Jessica S. McKenzie 