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Are other structures safer against hurricanes?
An underground data center would work if hurricane safety is your top concern. In any case a location on land is probably cheaper to rebuild.
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I cannot understand why people (certainly not just you) are so relentlessly obtuse about the destructive effect of Bitcoin mining and how it differs from other currencies. Say I trade a barrel of oil for $65. That barrel of oil is going to get burnt, (because otherwise it wouldn't have value to the recipient) but the process of burning it can produce something useful, like transportation. If I burn a barrel of oil to…
It continues to bother me that simply by having a problem with this particular argument against bitcoin, people assume I'm pro-bitcoin mining. Isn't it enough to have a problem with fallacious arguments? Oh I think bitcoin is plenty destructive, but it's a simple fact that we never critique ANY other technology or field in terms of energy consumption this way. We don't break down the industry-at-large in terms of ene…
We do, though. I just did. I pointed out that a $100 bill costs about 10 cents to make, whereas mining $100 worth of BTC requires $100 in electricity be used.
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I like nuclear, it's the obvious choice, and incredibly safe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_the_United_S... "Uranium mining in the United States produced 3,303,977 pounds (1,498,659 kg) of U3O8 (1271 tonnes of uranium) in 2015" The US. I wasn't aware there were a significant number of uranium mining deaths? I also assume the US can process it and safely dispose of the waste. No despotic countries of…
AFAIK the US imports 80% of its uranium used in power generation?
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AFAIK the US imports 80% of its uranium used in power generation?
You didn't really post much about why exactly that's a bad thing.
"Canada–25% Kazakhstan–24% Australia–20% Russia–14% Uzbekistan–4% Malawi, Namibia, Niger, and South Africa–10% Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, and Ukraine–2%"
So we can toss in the blood diamond / African blood uranium comparison, 10% of American uranium comes from Africa.
But we also have the despotic nation of Russia, so by using uranium you're in some part enriching that anti-liberty mobocracy.
I wish somebody worked on using that unwanted heat, like they do in swimming pool / ice rink combos, rather than finding ways to just disperse it faster in the environment.
It's tough in hot climates. There's plenty of heat to go around. And there are lots of people who live in hot climates who, for latency reasons, need servers near them. Thus there are kind of two cases to solve for. You can stick a data center in Northern Europe, and that heat might be valuable enough that your approach could be to try to reclaim it. If you stick a data center in Singapore, you'd better focus on gene…
Here's some more information from the blog post: https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-... And here's the project site: http://natick.research.microsoft.com/