Tag: Sustainability
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The wrong kind of ingenuity: Bitcoin’s energy problem
You can’t drink Bitcoin and you can’t grow crops from it, but fossil emissions produced through its wasteful algorithm are helping to dry up the Mountain West.
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Drought-resistant electricity for the Southwest
In drought-prone western states, we need to triage our water usage and prioritize withdrawals to the most important societal uses. Water will always be needed as a vital input to food production. That is no longer true of energy. Newer technologies can substantially reduce the amount of water we use to power our homes, offices…
