Bitcoin operation ignites debate around Pennsylvania coal mining waste

ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze visits a once dormant power plant now humming with crypto activity, which environmentalists warn creates pollution.

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That's y my water is brown!!!!!

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What a waste of energy.

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[@Alex-tx8sq]

What about all the normal banks out there they have to use electricity and you’re telling me they don’t have a bunch of server somewhere to run their websites once again trying to throw down the crypto market

[@specialopsdave]

All the banks in the world consume far less power than the U.S. bitcoin market alone. While it's true that the blockchain isn't energy intensive, mining bitcoin is far more energy than printing bills, or even better, creating credit.

[@NICK-nv6vu]

Wow! Smh hell noooooo!

[@Kai-qv2ig]

Environmental experts should know that disposal coal waste in land fill is also not proper solution. Those land fill will never be any use for how long whose know and burying coal waste is an accidents of fire waiting to happen like Centralia mine fire that happens in Pennsylvania years ago and it still burning. They have to evacuate the whole town. Plus what about water sources? We're risking drinking polluted water if they burying coal. So I rather see it be gone and no longer on land.

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[@TheBlumann]

if land is bad, I can find a different land to live on. can't do that with the atmosphere. can we somehow capture the emissions from that coal plant and use the bitcoin/crypto mining to finance that sort of outfitting? Is that a possibility here?

[@patzeuner8385]

Yes it's called installing scrubbers. It doesn't remove all of the pollutants but the smoke leaving the stacks is cleaner than it was years ago. And technology is always improving

[@chhive]

“Very good” is the best enemy of “perfect”, that’s very true.

[@calcoleman2398]

Just like leaving most fossils underground: has to be kept from the atmosphere.

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Sick

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bitcoin clean energy will be the future

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[@asianpower3000]

I mean I hope clean energy in general will be the future but right now it is still to expensive to be widely adopted.

[@michaellewis4632]

Your making a a bad situation worse

[@drkcodeman]

This absolutely horrible on the environment

[@Junkinsally]

The problem is the ash is just as toxic as the waste coal!! There was a company who want to build a power plant near me to burn waste coal and the EPA ultimately declined the permit because there just wasn’t a safe place to “dispose” of the ash. The area was part of a major water shed and any place proposed as ash storage was just to close to water.

[@linuxguy1199]

That's not true - the ash takes up much less volume and almost all of the toxic volatiles (like sulfur) are scrubbed out when the coal is burned. With the coal just sitting there those toxic, high-sulfur content volatiles will just damage the environment around them and go into the watershed. The EPA is not a smart agency and they almost never do long-term impact studies of existing coal waste since it was placed there before their jurisdiction. Any long-term impact study will show that burning the coal is better then letting it slowly leach large amounts of carbonic and sulfuric acid into the watershed.

[@godlove6980]

Who owns these mined bitcoins? The factory?

[@donlongo25]

wonder how much pollution by burning fossil fuels to move and cover up all that waste coal vs burning it...

[@anyoneanywhere8212]

This is extinct.

[@jimmygrant424]

How bout we get rid of waste politicians?!!?!?!?

[@hardeez1]

At least they're using it

[@ur22much2]

So bit coin mining is contributing to the Carbon problem?

[@cattameme]

Sosome dude had the idea of turning an old coal power plant into a bit coining mine. Damn.

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buy a currency you cant spend because you are too worried about speculating

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Bitcoin isnt physical. But digital

[@S3NDP13]

So this is the reason for the chip shortage?

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Umm we hit 64k not just 40k LOL

[@hacksaw5800]

Good video until propaganda at end

[@NICK-nv6vu]

nooooo! How is this happening??? Ur burning out the sky for a electronic coin???? But it effects the globe ??? No

[@actionnew]

It's stupid

[@Douglastrades]

If you think human activity can change the climate, I bet your still wearing a mask

[@ryuk-grimreaper]

Basically turning waste into toxic and will cause damage to future. Also, these are the same guys are the reason why you can't buy high-end graphics card for your gaming.

[@asianpower3000]

I mean not exactly these guys. These guys use asic miners which is application specific. No one mines Bitcoins with gpus anymore, its beyond unprofitable for that algo.

[@AMERICANFATHERU.S.A.]

I'm not going there......Stop polluting the air......

[@jimmyjohnn19]

lets debate till the end of the time of the

[@fransiscorivera6605]

You mean the climate concern of proof of work cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum. There’s other cryptocurrencies which run on greener energy and utilize less energy.

[@ryankoza7584]

They def left it a MESS just take a walk threw the Allegheny national forest.

[@Sidicas]

Investing in bitcoin is like putting water into a bucket with a hole at the bottom. So long as people pour water in faster than it drains everything is fine. When the additional money being thrown in slows for any reason, the value crashes very fast and people holding bitcoins cant get all their money back. The hole at the bottom of the bucket are the bitcoin miners draining your invested money out of the entire pool of all bitcoin into their own wallets. The bitcoin miners are constantly trying to find ways to make the hole at the bottom of the bucket bigger, through buying and inventing new technology to do mining at larger scales and faster rates.

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@CBEdits Investing in bitcoin is like investing in a bucket with a hole in the bottom on a rainy day. In any situation where it doesnt rain bitcoin valuations are going to tank. Do you believe me now or should i come back again when its values less than $7k per btc. Someday I am going to screenshot this and hang it on my wall next to the clown that said Blockbuster has a better business model than Netflix. Makes for good laughs. These clowns that support investing in crypto want you to focus on all the money rain coming into the bucket and ignore the gaping hole in the bottom.

[@eric6616]

Bitcoin cleaning up the environment is a very good thing. the critics are wrong about this.

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3:56 dude is freaky af.

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Horrible

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Bitcoin is a dinosaur and will meet the same fate.

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😐 why is there so many scamming comments in this comment section

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I know someone who took out money on collateral/2nd mortgage to buy a bunch of Bitcoins at $35k~ right now. Wild times.

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Lol crazy times indeed.

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What is up with this comment section

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Now that’s good ol’ capitalism! 🇺🇸

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[@anyoneanywhere8212]

That's extinct

[@I_Did_That_46]

SDIG!

[@saynomore5730]

I don’t think people are understanding the situation we have here this is not the way to go ..

[@chakmo_ol]

Solution; Mine using geothermal energy

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[@dougclem7711]

What about the ash that is the residue from burning that waste coal. Coal will leach out metals, burning just concentrate the cancer causing metals. A republican idea. We have a bit coin operation just starting up at Chad, KY., Harlan County.

[@patzeuner8385]

If you think about it, the ash will fill an area that is a lot smaller than the cubic yards (tons) of waste coal. With scrubbers on the smoke stacks that will reduce the air pollution. The scrubbers don't eliminate all of the pollutants but It is a way of disposing and utilizing the coal for power from the waste or crap coal that nobody else wants. Do the ashes contain hazardous materials I'd would agree, but the area of contamination is a lot smaller than trying to cover up a mountain of contaminated waste coal. Think of it like your charcoal grill, you put in a pile of charcoal and afterwards you have a small amount of ash.

[@think4two]

Love out of the box solution, does the greenie have a better idea?

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Crypto

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Bitcoin should be banned

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[@jasonjmarchi]

And young people who love Cypto and CARE about climate change drive their technology by burning coal? What's wrong with this picture?

[@asianpower3000]

Lol using coal that has been burned for decades before we were alive. Also, we realize there is literally nothing we can do until the older generation dies off.

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I have been calling for a crypto based on renewable energy for 10+ years but it will never be made since the greedy would rather us crippled or dead

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Cryptollution. Yeah, a brilliant solution for a steadily warming planet.

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The dollar is backed by nothing, bitcoin is decentralized. You're an angry clown.

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BITCOIN IS DIGITAL ENERGY

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Ok but we could burn it to power something actually useful

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