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46% Bitcoin miners employ renewable energy sources to mine Bitcoin: BMC
Bitcoin Mining Council (BMC), recently announced the results from its quarter fourth survey highlighting how Bitcoin mining is steadily adopting sustainable power usage. As per the latest Q4 survey re...
GE earnings: Wall Street analysts have lowered the beat bar, but investor expectations are now ‘slightly elevated’
General Electric Co. investors should expect a “particularly noisy” earnings report for the industrial conglomerate’s fourth quarter, which will be the first since the company said it was breaking up,...
46% Of Bitcoin Mining Network Now Use Sustainable Energy, Confirms Bitcoin Council ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Bitcoin mining now appears highly sustainable in terms of energy consumption contrary to previous criticisms, with the latest data from the Bitcoin M...
NIMBYism Is Global, And That’s A Problem For The Energy Transition
TOPSHOT – Demonstrators block a highway to protest against Anglo-Australian company Rio Tinto’s … [+] plan to mine lithium in the country, in Belgrade on December 4, 2021. – Th...
Wall Street: $100 Oil Might Just Be the Beginning
Text size The big question now for oil is where the U.S. dollar goes. Oil is priced in dollars and a strong dollar tends to hurt oil prices. Mario Tama/Getty Images A bet on $100 oil has gone from a l...
How a Russian invasion of Ukraine could trigger market shock waves
The threat of a devastating European ground war hasn’t done much to rattle financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia attack Ukr...
What Happened at Congress’ Bitcoin Energy Hearing?
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US. Download this episode This week on the “Weekly Recap,” NLW breaks down the House hearing on energy in the crypto industry. He looks at problems with...
How The US Department Of Energy Is Transforming AI
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has long stood out as one of the most science, technology, and innovation-focused US federal agencies. It should come as little surprise then that the DOE continues t...
Crypto Energy Consumption Enormous But It Needn’t Be, Congressional Panel Hears
Crypto energy usage can be lowered from its current enormous levels, House panel told getty The energy used in cryptocurrency transactions is enormous, but it needn’t be, a Congressional hearing today...
Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy plans $3.9 billion wind, solar project
This image from 2016 shows a wind turbine on property used by MidAmerican Energy’s Eclipse Wind Farm in Adair, Iowa. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A subsidiary of Warren Buffett’...
SunPower to Record $31 Million of Charges for Cracking Issue. The Stock Tumbles.
Text size An employee works to install new solar panels at a solar plant in Turkey. Chris McGrath/Getty Images SunPower shares were falling sharply Friday after the solar tech company said it expects ...
Iris Energy Secures 600MW Connection for Texas Bitcoin Mine
Australian crypto miner Iris Energy (IREN) secured a 600-megawatt connection for a new Texas crypto mining facility, the company said on Friday. The company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities a...
Techno Maven ANNA Talks ‘Journey To The Underworld,’ Ambient Music And Energy Healing
ANNA. Courtesy of Jacques Dequeker @jdequeker. Jacques Dequeker @jdequeker Techno tastemaker ANNA is known for her distinct seductive, transfixing and hard-hitting sound. The Brazilian-bred artist gra...
The dust has settled on COP26. Now the hard work begins
The COP26 climate summit, held in the Scottish city of Glasgow last year, made headlines around the world. After days of painstaking and at times fraught negotiations, countries agreed upon a deal whi...
Judge blasts PG&E as ‘continuing menace’ over wildfires
People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Governor Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar pan...
NextEra Energy is a buy
NextEra Energy: “NextEra is the fastest growing utility. I think it’s terrific, and I actually would be a buyer here tomorrow morning.” Spero Therapeutics: “This is the height ...
Congressional Hearing Puts Crypto Energy Use in the Crosshairs
11:30 a.m. ET (ND) Good morning folks, and welcome to CoinDesk’s live coverage of the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on cryptocurrencies and their environmental impact. Titled ̶...
Scotland’s offshore wind sector $951m boost after leasing round
Offshore wind turbines in waters near Aberdeen, Scotland. Gannet77 | E+ | Getty Images The Scottish offshore wind sector received a boost this week after a program to lease areas of Scotland’s s...
Proof-of-Work Ban Proposed by EU Finance Regulator to Curb Energy Usage
One of the EU’s top financial regulators has proposed banning the proof-of-work method of cryptocurrency mining, even as miners have switched to utilizing renewable resources. Given that proof-of-work...
Is Intel on its way to making Bitcoin Mining energy efficient?
Semiconductor and microchip giant Intel is set to disrupt the crypto world with a step that will make a drastic change in current mining scenarios of Cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin. In February,...
Oil could break the stock market’s back if crude ‘goes parabolic’ — How to prepare
Oil futures are trading at seven-year highs, adding to jitters around a teetering stock market, and investors should be prepared for the possibility of a further surge to the upside, one chart watcher...
‘We Were Wrong’ About Exxon’s Prospects, Analyst Says
Text size Scott Olson/Getty Images A former bear on Exxon Mobil has changed his tune, and acknowledged that he underestimated the company’s comeback last year. RBC Capital Markets analyst Biraj Borkha...
EU Market Watchdog Speaks Against Renewable Energy Mining for PoW
The Vice-Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Erik Thedéen, has taken an unpopular stance against the use of renewable energy for all Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining operations. I...
At least 6 signs show the stock market is starting to break down
Strap in! It could be a bumpy ride this year. Financial markets are off to a woeful start for the bulls in 2022. Blame surging inflation, an out-of-step Federal Reserve, or a nagging pandemic. But wha...
Plug Power Just Gave Bullish 2022 Sales Guidance. The Stock Is Down.
Text size Investors will be listening to Plug Power’s conference call to hear how hydrogen technology is developing and being adopted. Courtesy Plug Power Hydrogen fuel cell technology provider ...
Under-The-Radar Energy Stocks For 2022
Picture taken on January 23, 2015 of the newly finished PV Salvador solar plant near El Salvador, in … [+] the Atacama desert, northern Chile. The photovoltaic plant, built by SunPower, a Califo...
Op-Ed: The fallacies of the Bitcoin energy debate
If all your information about Bitcoin came only from the mainstream media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it (along with everything crypto) was spawned directly from the pits of hell. According t...
Monday’s worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 are down as much as 42% for 2022
Monday’s stock-market decline accelerated, and a closer look at the day’s worst performers highlighted painful double-digit year-to-date drops. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.92% was down a...