The real problem is Texas and the federal government allowing flaring in the first place.
With better regulations, many better things could be done with that gas rather than mining Bitcoin.
With better regulations, many better things could be done with that gas rather than mining Bitcoin.
You will always have to burn waste and unwanted gas at such facilities, because you need to stabilize pressure and flow from the well and you just cannot just capture and process all gas that comes out of it.
The majority of the burnt gas is methane anyway, and I prefer this to be burnt rather than released into the atmosphere.
If those oil wells are uneconomical to operate in a way that doesn't entail leaking the natural gas, maybe it's best for them not to operate at all.
With better regulations we could also maybe outlaw desktop gaming computers as there are a lot of powerful (and power hungry) desktop computers just being used to play video games when they could be doing many better things, like contributing to Folding@home or other efforts.
It is that attitude which was part of the reason why the USA got its previous president. Assuming that you did not like the previous president of the USA you'd do well to tone it down a bit since people don't like to be patronised.
> Assuming that you did not like the previous president of the USA
Bold assumption I even care about who the president of the USA is. They're all made of the same fabric.