(Natural News) Concerns regarding the environmental impact of bitcoin have surfaced despite its rising prominence. Many have criticized the cryptocurrency’s mining process for using up huge amounts of energy. Because of this, the U.S. treasury secretary warned of bitcoin’s “staggering” energy demand and slammed it as “extremely inefficient.” CNBC reported Feb. 22 that U.S. Secretary […]

(Natural News) Ethereum, one of the biggest cryptocurrencies after bitcoin, consumes massive amounts of energy to run its network. This is despite efforts from its creators to reduce its energy consumption a few years back. A new report from Digiconomist‘s Ethereum Energy Consumption Index shows that Etherum experienced a massive spike in energy consumption starting […]

(Natural News) Households in Singapore respond to ambient air pollution by increasing energy consumption, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Researchers who conducted the 2020 study found that increased electricity demand also increases the carbon emissions co-produced when supplying power to these homes. According to […]

(Natural News) Several analysts have been keeping an eye on China’s internal economic activity as another way of gauging how severe the coronavirus spread really is and how drastic the government’s actions are to contain it. Over the past few days, these analysts have been able to piece together a number of indicators suggesting that […]

(Natural News) For all the talk of “climate crisis” and “we’re all gonna die if we don’t stop global warming,” it turns out that city-dwelling liberals use far more energy than conservative, rural Americans. That’s because cities are, by their very nature, artificial constructs that depend on the delivery of multiple inputs in order to […]