24h after being published on Cell Press, and the new Alex de Vries (data scientist at Central Bank of Netherlands) "study" on Bitcoin's water usage is picked up by The Verge, BBC, The Independent, New Scientist, Science Daily, Firstpost, Euronews, Tech Xplore, Interesting Engineering, Investing and others.
We can literally take ocean water, heat it up with ASICs, which will leave the salt behind and the water vapor will turn back to liquid in a process known as water distillation. This is how you make distilled water.
But hey, it was central bank data scientists who came up with this shit so reason was out the window no matter what anyway nostr:note1nz4whdyypspt7fs859z64zzasugvgfk0pft6lypdq6q3fm5y4dcsplsu8l
Interesting fact
In the last month two studies were published, both attacking #bitcoin on the water usage angle:
1. "The Hidden Environmental Cost of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin Mining Impacts Climate, Water and Land"
by
United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)
https://inweh.unu.edu/the-hidden-environmental-cost-of-cryptocurrency/
2. "Bitcoin’s growing water footprint"
by Alex de Vries, Central Bank of The Netherlands
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-sustainability/fulltext/S2949-7906(23)00004-6
