RE:OT: BTC mining in AB using natgas powerIf you were ever going to whip a carbon tax at an enterprise this is the one.
These things generate a crazy amount of heat. I wonder if you can use it for Co-Gen purposes or possibly heating the water for liquifying tar oil.
Hard to shut it down if it's legal. I'm not sure this is the image the Indigenous want to display being all nature nature and all.
autofocus111 wrote: If these guys had been smart about it, they'd have struck a deak with an Indigenous nation and set up shop on a reserve. Then we'd see sparks really fly.
>>>Three natural gas-producing sites in southern Alberta could host "up to one million" bitcoin mining machines relocated from China under a deal proposed by Nevada-based Black Rock Petroleum Company amid Beijing's ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency production and trading....In other words, the one million machines supposedly destined for Alberta could represent around a third of global mining capacity. ...The top end of Black Rock's projections — one million mining machines — would suck up a gigantic amount of power in Alberta. De Vries, the founder of Digiconomist, said depending on the exact equipment type, those machines would need between one gigawatt (GW) to 3.5 GW of power — which, by de Vries's calculations, would take up roughly 10 to 30 per cent of the total natural gas-based electricity production in Alberta.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bitcoin-mining-black-rock-petroleum-company-1.6106978