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Is this the reason of global warming?
by co_dh 4y ago
Is this the reason of global warming?
- Y-bar 4y agoThe Russian energy grid doesn't really have a reputation for being carbon neutral...
- peterpost2 4y agoDon't they have more nuclear poweplants than most places in the west?
- lkbm 4y agoMight be more, but it's still a minority of their grid. Wikipedia has a graph for 2016: 18.1% nuclear, 47.9% natural gas, and 15.7% coal.[0] "Energy Matters" says that EU energy production was 26% nuclear in 2015, but only 12% for consumption[1], so I'm not sure how to look at that comparison. Either way, that's probably mostly France (~80%[2]). US around 8-9%[1]. TL;DR: Yes, most western countries probably have less nuclear, but it's a low bar. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Russia#Mode_of_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Russia#M... [1] http://euanmearns.com/primary-energy-in-the-european-union-and-usa-compared/ http://euanmearns.com/primary-energy-in-the-european-union-a... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#Mode_of_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France#M...
- hwillis 4y agoRussian nuclear is ~17% (compare US at 19%). Overall it is slightly less CO2-intensive than the US, as it uses less coal. They have almost as much hydroelectric power as the entire US renewable sector.
- Y-bar 4y agoThey have a sizeable nuclear electricity production, and in energy use overall they are behind USA, but still worse than many other places: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?end=2018&locations=RU-NO-GB-US-ES-DE-FR-VN-JP&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=1990&view=chart https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?end=2018...
- H8crilA 4y agoAs much as you living in a steel reinforced concrete house.
- InCityDreams 4y agoThere are those that day global warming is caused by politicians talking crap about global warming. My theory is global warming is caused by the people that vote for the politicians that talk crap about global warming.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoCryptocurrency is not even 1% of global energy consumption. The environment is being destroyed by China, western nations, fossil fuels. If anything cryptocurrency is just a very small drop in their bucket.
- ryan_lane 4y ago1% of global energy usage is an insanely high number for something like this. 1% is absolutely not a drop in a bucket.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoSomething completely useless like bitcoin, absolutely. I wouldn't mind even more energy being poured into Monero though.
- ryan_lane 4y agoMonero is almost solely use for crime. Most exchanges won't touch it, and that's a good thing because it would pour fuel on top of the existing cryptocurrency-enabled ransomware trash fires, if it was actually usable.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoSo? If some criminal usage is the price we must pay for real privacy, so be it. Total warrantless surveillance is the greater crime.
- ryan_lane 4y agoIf we were talking about petty crime, I may agree with you, but cryptocurrencies enable ransomware, which frequently shuts down critical services like hospitals and schools. Ransomware attackers have also leaked personal medical records from hospitals, and student's private records from schools. Surveillance is an issue, but for the most part, it's not warrantless in our current system. Cryptocurrencies, excluding things like Monero and Zcash actually make it considerably easier to do warrantless surveillance. If I'm forced to choose between some instances of illegal warrantless surveillance, and the complete inability to trace financial crimes, I'll take the instances of illegal surveillance, with the hope we'll try to fix those issues.