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I thought Tesla was a “green” company. Elon, this sucks

by massinstall on 2/8/21, 8:42 PM with 31 comments

• by chemmail on 2/8/21, 9:42 PM

  While i'm not some Elon maniac, I think these people need to stop eating, because that is more environmentally unfriendly.

• by rmetzler on 2/8/21, 8:56 PM

  I really don't understand how any company creating batteries from lithium can be considered "green".

• by bryanlarsen on 2/8/21, 9:06 PM

  Elon originally funded Tesla because he thought the world was going to run out of oil, not for environmental reasons.

• by endori97 on 2/8/21, 11:49 PM

  >>or 52,255 hours of watching Youtube

  1 billion hours of YouTube are watched per day... so Bitcoin is ~20,000x greener than YouTube consumption?

• by xiphias2 on 2/8/21, 10:59 PM

  The title doesn't match the article title...this sucks

• by rzz3 on 2/8/21, 8:54 PM

  As if USD is green...

• by mjfl on 2/8/21, 8:56 PM

  "Equivalent to the carbon footprint of 694,893 VISA transactions" That's actually way less than I thought. How much energy does the VISA network expend? Aren't their trillions of transactions per year?

• by emteycz on 2/8/21, 8:50 PM

  You know what sucks? Governments having control of money. Governments will suck you dry of your last cent if they have the slightest reason, regardless of your need to have a bed under a roof and having something to eat. Don't let governments control all money. Even if this was true, it's worth it.

  And I don't believe it's true. Are you telling me most Bitcoin miners are paying for mining Bitcoin? I really would like to meet these miners. If a miner wants to be profitable they must use waste electricity - any other electricity, industrial or not, is several multiples too expensive. And I think it's better if waste electricity is used for Bitcoin instead of being dumped.

  (I guess the downvoters never had a government take all their money because of unpaid parking tickets?)