Dear Mining Community,
If anyone ever has the gall to tell you that you are unsustainable wastes of electricity - fire back at them with this comprehensive and conclusive research data!
Gold Mining has the following impact every year:
- 475 million gigajoules of energy used
- 54 million tonnes of CO2 produced- Consumes 800 billion litres of water
- Consumes 400,000 tonnes of deadly cyanide
- Generates 4 billion tonnes of waste rock
- tens of thousands of worker deaths in recorded history, and an over 100 deaths a year in the modern age
- USD$600m of Conflict Gold mined every year, which it tainted with physical and sexual violence, and human enslavement.
Meanwhile, here are the stats about Bitcoin mining:
- 3.3 million gigajoules of energy used
- 550,000 tonnes of CO2 (99% less than Gold mining!)- No consumption of water or cyanide, and no generation of waste rock.
Link to the full research paper is here:
http://dealingwithdisruption.com/2014/06/05/an-order-of-magnitude-estimate-of-the-relative-sustainability-of-the-bitcoin-network/Keep fighting the good fight, and mine on!