The rate of new renewable energy sources created because of bitcoin is higher overall than without bitcoin.
[1] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bitcoin-miners-resurrect-fossil...
Nuclear is dirty? How?
With breeder reactors we can cut that down by several hundred times - it’s just that uranium is quite abundant and very energy dense so we haven't really bothered to.
Further there’s a few billion tons in the ocean we’re working on extracting.
If we’re willing to accept extracting rare earth metals from Mongolian hellscapes like Baitou and calling wind green, it’s pretty disingenuous not to extend the same treatment to nuclear. [1] There is no free lunch.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-...
And the fact that the current death toll stands at 1 (likely to increase though) and Fukushima is perfectly habitable now (and has been for a while now). Almost 20000 people died due to the earthquake and tsunami. Only 1 due to the nuclear disaster.
Fukushima disaster should be a footnote in history. It’s not a valid representation of safety of nuclear power.
As a European, I’m far more concerned about the dependence on Russian natural gas (Germany completely abandoning nuclear; Nordstream 2) than I am about a reactor blowing up.