In the past, nearby residents weren’t necessarily enamored with the idea of a pollution-spewing power plant warming their deep, cold water lake, but at least the electricity produced by the plant was powering their homes. Sixty percent still does, Greenidge said, but the rest of the time, the turbines are burning natural gas to mint profits for the private equity firm Atlas Holdings by mining bitcoin.
Atlas, the firm that bought Greenidge has been ramping up its bitcoin mining aspirations over the last year and a half, installing thousands of mining rigs that have produced over 1,100 bitcoin as of February 2021. The company has plans to install thousands more rigs, ultimately using 85 MW of the station’s total 108 MW capacity.
Seneca Lake’s water isn’t the only thing the power plant is warming. In December 2020, with the power plant running at just 13 percent of its capacity, Atlas’ bitcoin operations there produced 243,103 tons of carbon dioxide and equivalent greenhouse gases, a ten-fold increase from January 2020 when mining commenced. NOx pollution, which is responsible for everything from asthma, lung cancer, and premature death, also rose 10x.
The plant currently has a permit to emit 641,000 tons CO2e every year, though if Atlas wants to maximize its return on investment and use all 106 MW of the plant’s capacity, its carbon pollution could surge to 1.06 million tons per year, according to Earthjustice and the Sierra Club. Expect NOx emissions—and health impacts—to rise accordingly. The project’s only tangible benefit (apart from dividends appearing in investors’ pockets) are the company’s claimed 31 jobs.
Aidos Daribayev further noted that the consumption of energy in the country increased by 8% during the first 10 months of the year 2021, While in previous years the growth rate was between 1 to 2% per year.
In 2021, the electricity use in Kazakhstan reached 82.99 billion kWh. The Kazakhstan Energy Ministry attributed this high consumption to Bitcoin mining data centers in the country.
According to the ministry, about 50 data centers focused on the production of cryptocurrencies are located in Kazakhstan. Their load is 693.3 MW, and the total permitted capacity according to technical conditions is 972.3 MW.
“When Texas sought to enter the Union in 1845 as a slave state, federal law in the United States, based on the Missouri Compromise, prohibited slavery north of 36°30’ parallel north. Under the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered its lands north of 36°30’ latitude.”
Tell me more about how critical race theory shouldn’t be taught in school.
I am a grown ass man and I just learned about this 5 minutes ago. Fuck everything about trying to hide the sins of our past.
Critical Race theory, as it actually is, is a high level class taught in Law School. It focuses on how laws in the US that are supposed to be equally affect everyone, actually disproportionately affect marginalized people.
What the is displayed in OP’s image is US history as it is related to slavery.
When certain conservatives are crying about “Critical Race Theory,” they are complaining that they don’t want certain kinds of history taught in school. Anything that might make people feel bad. Making history nice and palatable instead of actually acknowledging the messy realities.
The making of those past mistakes isn’t the problem. It’s the fact that so many people are unwilling to own up to those decisions. By making it problematic to teach about certain aspects of history, they will be able sweep under the rug atrocities that are still effecting people to this day.
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On this day, 23 November 1913, during the Mexican Revolution, Margarita Ortega, a schoolteacher, sharpshooter and anarchist was executed by the counterrevolutionary government of Victoriana Huerta.
Two years earlier, Ortega and her daughter left her partner saying “I love you; but I also love those who suffer, and for them I fight and risk my life. I don’t want to see more men and women giving their effort, their health, their intelligence, their future to make the bourgeoisie rich. I don’t want there to be men who order around other men any more”. They threw themselves into organising and fighting in the turbulent events of the revolution.
After her arrest four days earlier Ortega was tortured but refused to name any for comrades, shouting “Cowards! Tear my skin to pieces, break my bones, drink all of my blood, and I will never denounce one of my friends”.
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