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Waste, Coal and Cryptocurrency in Pennsylvania

Waste, Coal and Cryptocurrency in Pennsylvania

Presented by Rob Altenburg, Senior Director for Energy and Climate at PennFuture

February 11, 2022

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The creation and use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies requires huge amounts of electricity to run hundreds of thousands of special-purpose computers around the world. This webinar will address how the health of Pennsylvanians is being impacted as companies burn massive amounts of waste coal to power these operations and ratepayers are handing them huge subsidies to do so.

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