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Comment by coralreef

Funny trend: solar and wind power are now cheaper than coal.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/11/Price-of-electric...

Here's a hot take: Bitcoin subsidizes clean energy development. Miners buy cheap energy; clean energy infrastructure gets profitable return. Cost of development and manufacturing lowers further because of scale; pollution and externalities reduced; humanity wins. Bitcoin saves humanity?

parent coralreef 5 years ago

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