Pennsylvania-based cryptocurrency mining company Stronghold Digital Mining is using coal waste instead of electricity to power hundreds of supercomputers. This was reported by Crypto Potato on the 22nd (local time).
According to the report, environmentalists around the world have accused bitcoin mining of damaging the environment and straining the country’s energy system. In fact, according to one report, the annual energy use of Bitcoin mining farms is higher than that of Finland as a whole.
A recent Reuters report cited by Cryptopotato revealed that Stronghold Digital Mining has, as an alternative, used coal ash left by decades-old thermal power plants to generate electricity. The company is said to be collecting coal ash from mines near Pennsylvania and burning it in a boiler building to generate the electricity needed to mine Bitcoin.
However, coal ash contains a number of heavy metals known to be carcinogenic, and the company is taking steps to prevent the heavy metals from entering drinking water, according to Stronghold Digital Mining.
As another measure against environmental damage caused by energy consumption related to bitcoin mining, in October of last year, North Vancouver, Canada, a city with a population of 50,000, announced that the energy emitted from bitcoin mining would be used to heat houses. there is. The North Vancouver Authority’s project is a collaboration between Londondale Energy Corporation (LEC) and bitcoin mining company MintGreen.
When the project is completed, it is expected that the amount of greenhouse gas flowing into the atmosphere per megawatt will be reduced by about 20,000 tons compared to natural gas.
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