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01/15/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Cryptocurrency is now breaking the power grid of a U.S. county as electrical consumption for Bitcoin mining reaches “insane” territory

The amount of electricity required to mine and transact Bitcoin is now so high that a small county in Washington state is having to kick production into overdrive. According to reports, Douglas County, located in almost the dead-center of the state, has some of the cheapest electricity rates in the country, and this has created heavy […]

11/29/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Bitcoin on track to consume the ENTIRE global electricity supply by the year 2020

As the online cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin reaches record price highs, many people are now asking themselves: Is Bitcoin really where the financial sector is headed? Not if you care about the environment, suggests shocking new data compiled as part of Digiconomist‘s “Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index” (BECI). This eye-opening measure of how much energy it […]

04/19/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Green energy LUNACY prevails as wind farms in the UK will be paid to turn OFF their turbines due to too much energy being produced

The United Kingdom has too much renewable energy and may have to limit the amount of green energy it produces during the summer months, according to a report by the National Grid released earlier this month. Over the past few years, the U.K. has spent a lot of effort in reducing its carbon footprint by […]

01/12/2017 / By News Editors

The coming famine: Russia, peak oil and the collapse of cheap food

I’ve gotten a couple emails from people who have asked me what I think the “end game” is in regards to Russia. And, indeed, the government is going into extra innings with this whole Russia vilification project. This is worse than someone who has held on to a grudge for years. The government does that, […]

07/20/2016 / By Mary Wilder

How Nikola Tesla could have saved the world with a powerful, limitless energy source

Among truth-seekers, science junkies and those of us who are constantly looking to expand our understanding of new technologies, Nikola Tesla is a hero. One of the greatest minds in the history of the world, Tesla’s ideas and inventions are still relevant today — and many of the technological luxuries we have in 2016 are […]

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