Citizens who eat our changing climate: Crypting currency mining affects us locally

Many people asked me about the new units that you put in the sub -stations of the north and west of Bimidji.

They are encryption mining facilities and consume huge amounts of electricity and benefit from the proximity of the coming “raw” energy through transportation lines from the power stations in the center of North Dakota. Unfortunately, the huge amounts of electricity they consume come as a cost of the environment and public health.

Cryon mining is the process of creating an encrypted currency

Where both individuals and participating companies can.

Commonly, one advantages are created for the operator and a few local jobs. A recent study found that Chinese entrepreneurs were suffering from at least 12 US states. They earn money, and we get weather pollutants from increased electricity generation.

Electrical coding mining can affect. Our local electrical cooperative is one of the many who sell electricity to enable the encryption mining factor to compete in mining work that can result in encryption dollars to an individual operator.

The encryption mining worker is pushing for operation and maintaining the coldness of hundreds or thousands of computers to do the calculations that create an encrypted currency. It is not customary for these literally combined computers to ignite.

So, what is the relationship of this to electrical cooperatives and energy markets? The encryption mining represents a new electricity market that we have not done before. Usually we have peak and peak periods every day. Curds can fill peak times with new loads. In general, the more the energy generated, the more efficiently operates.

They should provide a quantity of electricity to meet the requirements of peak, usually between 4 and 7 pm, usually sends a cooperative generation to a group of distribution cooperatives. High -capacity transport lines end at the sub -stations that provide energy distribution cooperatives for other local families and customers, such as schools or factories, which create local job opportunities.

Each family is responsible for small carbon emissions. On the contrary, the coding mining process may produce one carbon imprint equivalent to thousands of families. Today, coding mining in the United States attracts 2.3 % of all electricity or

More than the country of Poland.

Today, energy encryption mining facilities buy energy from sub -stations from the distribution cooperative, making generation factories closer to the level of power production. Often, these computer banks are located near the sub -stations distribution and purchase of energy outside peak times at a price that is negotiated between cooperatives and encryption mines.

Rubs come when we look at the environmental effects of generators. The worst effects are the burning of rich charcoal, which drives our plants in North Dakota. The more the energy they generate, the more carbon number of their chimneys. In addition to carbon emissions, mercury and other unhealthy secondary products, some of which may be caught and terrestrial, as the generator is requested under the law.

The arrangement in which we continue to run generators is ignored near their peaks to enable encryption mining with the effect of burning coal on health and climate. One factory can launch hundreds of pounds of mercury every year. Every factory that burns coal contributes to the weather events that we see clearly throughout our country in forms of fires, floods, invading destructive insects, unprecedented storms and the most important hurricanes.

We have seen the demand for low electricity in the family market, but in general, it is still high. We can not simply close our coal factories without replacing energy production. In addition, we need to isolate this carbon in one way or another. Some plants are on the way to pump carbon dioxide in the first place, which is good but has not yet worked.

Allowing encryption mining to maintain generators during the high carbon levels in the atmosphere contributes to climate change, at the very least.

Our rural electrical cooperatives may customize their carbon emissions to be as low as possible while meeting the needs of their local members without support for encryption mining.

Charlie Parson is a member of the Climate Labby Climate Organization. For more information, please visit

Citizensclimatelobby.org.