04-05-2022, 08:32 AM
Nuclear energy, being carbon free and power rich, is ideal to mine Bitcoin with.
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Enough with the talk that Bitcoin needs to change from proof of work (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS) to be environmentally friendly. Forgetting about the issue of PoS for a moment, it’s not the Bitcoin code that needs to change, it’s the energy sources that need improving. </p> <p>At the core of Bitcoin mining is energy and energy infrastructure, for semi-obvious reasons coal and fossil fuels are the worse source due to CO2 emissions and there being a limited supply - wind and solar are better because they are more abundant but not the best due to their intermittency (it’s not always windy and not always sunny). </p> <p>Nuclear is both stable (not intermittent) and carbon free! It is the <strong>largest source of carbon-free electricity</strong> in the United States and protects air quality by generating electricity without other harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter or mercury. </p> <p>Nuclear has the highest capacity factor compared to any other energy source - and has historically caused considerably less deaths compared to climate and air quality side effects of coal and fossil foil burning! </p> <p>People fear nuclear energy because they don’t understand it, they think the plant will explode and spread radiation like a Chernobyl or Fukushima - they just think ‘atom bomb’ and leaky barrels of green goo and say no way - although the health and deaths related to all summed nuclear incidence are nowhere near those related to collective and continued fossil fuel burning!!! </p> <p>Tldr; <strong>We don’t need to change Bitcoins algorithm to go green; we need to find more efficient cleaner safer energy sources,</strong> and nuclear is a really good answer when looked at in a scientific and environmental light.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Jxntb733"> /u/Jxntb733 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/tw506o/nuclear_energy_being_carbon_free_and_power_rich/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/tw506o/nuclear_energy_being_carbon_free_and_power_rich/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Enough with the talk that Bitcoin needs to change from proof of work (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS) to be environmentally friendly. Forgetting about the issue of PoS for a moment, it’s not the Bitcoin code that needs to change, it’s the energy sources that need improving. </p> <p>At the core of Bitcoin mining is energy and energy infrastructure, for semi-obvious reasons coal and fossil fuels are the worse source due to CO2 emissions and there being a limited supply - wind and solar are better because they are more abundant but not the best due to their intermittency (it’s not always windy and not always sunny). </p> <p>Nuclear is both stable (not intermittent) and carbon free! It is the <strong>largest source of carbon-free electricity</strong> in the United States and protects air quality by generating electricity without other harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter or mercury. </p> <p>Nuclear has the highest capacity factor compared to any other energy source - and has historically caused considerably less deaths compared to climate and air quality side effects of coal and fossil foil burning! </p> <p>People fear nuclear energy because they don’t understand it, they think the plant will explode and spread radiation like a Chernobyl or Fukushima - they just think ‘atom bomb’ and leaky barrels of green goo and say no way - although the health and deaths related to all summed nuclear incidence are nowhere near those related to collective and continued fossil fuel burning!!! </p> <p>Tldr; <strong>We don’t need to change Bitcoins algorithm to go green; we need to find more efficient cleaner safer energy sources,</strong> and nuclear is a really good answer when looked at in a scientific and environmental light.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Jxntb733"> /u/Jxntb733 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/tw506o/nuclear_energy_being_carbon_free_and_power_rich/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/tw506o/nuclear_energy_being_carbon_free_and_power_rich/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R