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.

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This is starting to sound like...

[Zombie Ryushu]

This is starting to sound like... people in the final stages of addiction to heavy narcotics. We are so desprate to find a way to make money because so many of us are absolutely improverished because of the absolutely policies of the US that have created absolutely Medieval divisions in wealth, and Canada seems to be in the same position on a ten year lag.

Racism, Religion (Particularly Christianity, but also Islam) and Corporatism are literally leading us to the extinction of the Human species.
I see literally no way out of this beyond a Social Democratic revolution in the US, the prosecutions of polluters, money launderers, and banks that do not conform to the Glass-Stegal Regulations, In addition, heavy taxation on Billionaires, and the re-nationaization of National parks, and Wildlife reserves. The banning of Fracking and the prohibition of Oil Exploration in the Arctic North.

Re:I was sexual assaulted by a female coworker

[Trogre]

Mansplaining - one of the more idiotic terms entering common usage in 2017, even for the usually low standard of feminist circles.