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Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs (vice.com)
Christopher Malmo, writing for Motherboard: An entrepreneurial cryptocurrency mining company has just announced an unusual deal: it has partnered with a tire-based waste-to-energy company in the United States to power its mining computers. Standard American Mining and PRTI, a tire "thermal demanufacturing" company based in North Carolina, are powering graphics cards-based mining equipment to earn a range of alternative cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. Basically, they take used tires and heat them to a precise temperature, resulting in components like steel (from belted tires), carbon black, and a burnable fuel. That fuel is the energy source driving turbines to make electricity, which powers an onsite cryptocurrency mining farm. Taking advantage of an underutilized electricity source to run computers isn't groundbreaking, but the unusual set-up shows that cryptocurrency mining is now profitable enough to justify finding quite unconventional sources of cheap or new energy generation.
In the Obama-era EPA this company would have been regulated out of existence.
Bullshit. Gasification, a technology which was commonly used during WWII, was not only allowed but encouraged during the Obama Administration.
In the Trump-era EPA it might be hailed as "MAGA" and allowed to pollute the environment.
Pollute the environment, how exactly?
I guess there can be no "happy medium" between those 2 extremes....
Maybe, instead of guessing and remaining ignorant, you could actually learn something. The alternative is to remain willfully ignorant.
Gasification
The Fischer–Tropsch process
"Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian, and it is all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German, and it is all organized by the Italians."
That may be true but idiots abound, as you have so fervently pointed out.
Please consider taking your idiotic politics somewhere where people will simply nod in agreement with you.