{"id":124642,"date":"2021-07-06T17:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T00:22:35","slug":"bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fossil fuel power plant that a private equity firm <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/05\/private-equity-firm-revives-zombie-fossil-fuel-power-plant-to-mine-bitcoin\/\">revived to mine bitcoin<\/a> is at it again. Not content to just pollute the atmosphere in pursuit of a volatile crypto asset with little real-world utility, this experiment in free marketeering is also dumping tens of millions of gallons of hot water into glacial Seneca Lake in upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lake is so warm you feel like you\u2019re in a hot tub,\u201d Abi Buddington, who lives near the Greenidge power plant, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/some-locals-say-bitcoin-mining-operation-ruining-one-finger-lakes-n1272938\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fossil fuel power plant that a private equity firm revived to mine bitcoin is at it again. Not content to just pollute the atmosphere in pursuit of a volatile crypto asset with little real-world utility, this experiment in free marketeering is also dumping tens of millions of gallons of hot water into glacial Seneca [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}