Headline News:
- The sun has not shone on Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland’s northernmost point, since October 11. These should be among the coldest weeks of the year for the cape. But over the weekend, the weather station there recorded an air temperature of 43° F, more than 50° above normal for this time of year. Meanwhile, Europe is freezing cold. [The Atlantic]
Snow in Rome, but a thaw in northern Greenland (Alessandra Tarantino | AP)
- The CEO of Hydro-Québec said it has “received hundreds of applications” from cryptocurrency miners in the past few weeks, for a total of over 9,000 MW of energy. That is about one-quarter of the utility’s total generating capacity of 37,000 MW. Hydro-Québec said last month it was in talks with more than 30 such companies. [Montreal Gazette]
- “Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, or Something Worse?” • Money is supposed to be a means of buying things. Now, the nation’s hottest investment is buying money. And while Bitcoin mining may not be labor intensive, it diverts time, energy and capital from other, more productive activities that economists say could fuel faster growth. [New York Times]
- The Students for Carbon Dividends, a new coalition of student groups, includes 23 College Republican clubs, 6 Democratic clubs, and 5 environmental groups from schools across the country. The inclusion of Republican voices in the climate-change discussion offers some hope of future bipartisan cooperation on the issue. [Curbed]
- Massachusetts Gov Charlie Baker and all eleven members of the state’s congressional delegation urged that the Trump administration back away from its plan to open new areas off the US East Coast to oil and gas drilling. They note that the North Atlantic has largely not been eligible for oil and gas drilling for over 30 years. [MassLive.com]
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March 1 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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