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- AI needs so much power that old coal plants are sticking around https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/ai-needs-so-much-power-that-old-coal-plants-are-sticking-around 45 comments
- Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-life-to-old-fossil-fuel-power-plants-11621594803 84 comments
- Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-life-to-old-fossil-fuel-power-plants-11621594803 2 comments
- Japan's J-Power to close old coal-fired power plants by 2030. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13888515 5 comments worldnews
- Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub/ 20 comments cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub/ 7 comments environment
- Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub/ 470 comments technology
- Bitcoin power plant is turning a 12,000-year-old glacial lake into a hot tub https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/bitcoin-power-plant-is-turning-a-12000-year-old-glacial-lake-into-a-hot-tub/ 44 comments climate
- 30 Year-Old Dream Comes True With The Construction Of Israel’s Biggest Solar Power Plant http://nocamels.com/2013/10/30-year-old-dream-comes-true-with-the-construction-of-israels-biggest-solar-power-plant/ 4 comments worldnews
- A major emergency occurred in a two-month-old nuclear power plant in Belarus as reported by the independent NGO, authorities fail to admit the fact (in Russian). https://ecohome-ngo.by/zayavlenie-belarussskoj-antiyadernoj-kampanii-po-povodu-vozmozhnogo-chp-svyazannogo-s-rezervnoj-sistemoj-ohlazhdeniya-reaktora-pervogo-energobloka-belaes/ 3 comments worldnews
- Switzerland shuts down 47-year-old nuclear power plant located 25 miles west of the capital Bern https://apnews.com/e04bbfcb322c729d1980d105e4962a0e 27 comments worldnews
- The Most Radioactive Man on Earth - Naoto Matsumura, a 53-yr-old 5th-generation rice farmer, returns to his contaminated home near Japan's Fukushima power plant to care for his cows. All of the other ~15,000 residents still live in shelters. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/03/most-radioactive-man-earth 18 comments worldnews
- Unite Nations: Thyroid gland doses of internal radiation in year-old infants living within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are well within safety limits http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/aj201302270037 4 comments worldnews
- AI Needs So Much Power That Old Coal Plants Are Sticking Around https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/ai-needs-so-much-power-that-old-coal-plants-are-sticking-around 95 comments technology
- How old coal mines and abandoned power plants are being converted into renewable energy sites https://www.fastcompany.com/90992616/how-old-coal-mines-and-abandoned-power-plants-are-being-converted-into-renewable-energy-sites 2 comments renewableenergy
- Those old power plants? Now we have the means to turn them green. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/29/power-plants-retrofitting-ira-green-facilities/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjcyOTI0MzUiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjY0NDUzNDQ3LCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjY1NjYzMDQ3LCJpYXQiOjE2NjQ0NTM0NDcsImp0aSI6IjM3MTBmZTVkLTY4ZjctNGNhMy1iNzdjLTgwYTgzMWI3MzY4OCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIyLzA5LzI5L3Bvd2VyLXBsYW50cy1yZXRyb2ZpdHRpbmctaXJhLWdyZWVuLWZhY2lsaXRpZXMvIn0.6oqfMuuXaqXfQA_nplAzE31z2NIWtSTJk3u61enE_C4 4 comments climate
- 66% more energy? This new turbine could turn old power plants into clean(er) machines https://www.fastcompany.com/90784594/66-more-energy-this-new-turbine-could-turn-old-power-plants-into-cleaner-machines 22 comments energy
- 66% more energy? This new turbine could turn old power plants into clean(er) machines https://www.fastcompany.com/90784594/66-more-energy-this-new-turbine-could-turn-old-power-plants-into-cleaner-machines 18 comments technology
- In a Twist, Old Coal Plants Help Deliver Renewable Power. Here’s How. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/climate/coal-plants-renewable-energy.html 9 comments renewableenergy
- In a Twist, Old Coal Plants Help Deliver Renewable Power. Here’s How. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/climate/coal-plants-renewable-energy.html 16 comments energy
- Armenia to invite cryptocurrency miners to install coin minting hardware in old thermal power plants https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/cryptocurrency/blockchain/armenia-to-invite-cryptocurrency-miners-to-install-coin-minting-hardware-in-old-thermal-power-plants/articleshow/89151271.cms 28 comments cryptocurrency
- UK fires up coal power plant as gas prices soar, The UK fired up an old coal power plant on Monday to meet its electricity needs. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58469238 4 comments technology
- Got an Old Power Plant Lying Around? Crypto Miners Are Buying Them Up - They’ll take denim mills, airplane hangars, and aluminum smelters, too. https://www.curbed.com/2021/07/crypto-currency-mining-old-power-plants.html 12 comments technology
- Got an Old Power Plant Lying Around? Crypto Miners Are Buying Them Up http://www.curbed.com/amp/2021/07/crypto-currency-mining-old-power-plants.html 16 comments cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-life-to-old-fossil-fuel-power-plants-11621594803 267 comments technews
- Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-life-to-old-fossil-fuel-power-plants-11621594803?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/h3itnumzeo 6 comments cryptocurrency
- France to extend lifetime of old nuclear power plants https://news.yahoo.com/france-extend-lifetime-old-nuclear-102331515.html 20 comments europe
- Japan is closing its old, dirty power plants – and that's bad news for Australia's coal exports https://theconversation.com/japan-is-closing-its-old-dirty-power-plants-and-thats-bad-news-for-australias-coal-exports-144452 3 comments energy
- Some good news - Japan is closing its old, dirty power plants – and that's bad news for Australia's coal exports https://theconversation.com/japan-is-closing-its-old-dirty-power-plants-and-thats-bad-news-for-australias-coal-exports-144452 37 comments environment
- Old power plants put India in 11th slot in energy efficiency - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/old-power-plants-put-india-in-11th-slot-in-energy-efficiency/articleshow/39849119.cms 5 comments india
- A 40-year old Spanish nuclear power plant built to the same design model as Fukushima's disaster-struck reactor No. 1 has become engulfed by calls for it to be shut down, while Brussels is questioning the safety of EU installations and has pushed for stress tests of nuclear power plants. http://www.euractiv.com/en/energy/calls-shut-europes-fukushima-news-503259 19 comments worldnews
- Plan to covert old coal power plant into world's largest carbon capture facility gains momentum https://www.abqjournal.com/1399150/carboncapture-gambit.html 5 comments worldnews
- India to Phase-Out 25 Year-Old Thermal Power Plants in Five Years https://sputniknews.com/asia/201612151048589448-india-pollution-power-plant/ 5 comments india
- France Courts Tesla to Open Factory in an Old Nuclear Power Plant http://fortune.com/2016/04/06/france-tesla-musk-royal-nuclear-plant-factory/ 3 comments business
- Six New Solar Power Plant Plans Pulverize Old Records http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/09/six-new-solar-power-plants-pulverize-old-records.php 2 comments technology
- The point Obama is making is that we need to transition from coal-burning power plants built with old technology to plants built with advanced technologies http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailcoal3-2008nov03,0,6104195.story 9 comments politics
- Polluters Rely on Old Rhetoric to Block Clean Energy Future | For 60 years, corporate polluters have sought to slow and derail anti-pollution laws, often using the exact same arguments and wording. Today’s pushback against EPA proposals to cut CO2 emissions from power plants is no exception. https://www.desmog.com/2023/08/01/polluters-rhetoric-block-air-quality-clean-energy-epa-power-plant-climate-action/ 3 comments environment
- The Trump administration just snuck through its most devious coal subsidy yet | How a new FERC order will help old, polluting power plants stay alive. https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/energy-and-environment/2019/12/23/21031112/trump-coal-ferc-energy-subsidy-mopr 16 comments politics
- Fissile: India has big plans for new nuclear power plants. What does it plan to do with the old ones? https://fiftytwo.in/story/fissile/ 6 comments india