The amount of energy consumed by mining for gold ...

[Fulthrotl]

Heh, the Mighty Columbia rolls on to generate fake wealth...

its generating real wealth. that electric bill will be paid.

 

[steve66]

There is no surer sign of a failed fiat than cryptocurrencies creating valuation out of thin air. Iirc, there's something like 2 dz worldwide, which (and this is the thing) hail to nor are dependent on any particular countries monetary system , backed by banks, gub'mit authority....or anything else in the physical universe.

~RJ~

Well, that and the whole Mt. Gox thing where they just claimed they had been hacked. Somebody walked off with all the real money.

 

[RumRunner]

. . . . Either way I have a degree in metallurgy and mineral processing so I know a lot about this stuff. The oldest and actually the first cast iron pipe plant in the US was located in Florence, NJ. I was the last engineer there until it closed 10 years ago, mostly due to the pre-Christie/Obama business climate. NJ had just passed their own mercury regulation set at 10 times tighter than EPA at a level so low that no soil in the US can pass. In other words if you make a garden in your back yard, it’s an environmental waste site. Mercury is one of the things Congress set the limit at “no measurable amount”. At one time this would be around 0.1% but as measurement technology has improved we are now at parts per billion. The law needs to change. There is no measurable health hazard when we are lower than the general environment.. . . .


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Thank you for sharing that.


Sometimes when someone comes up with an idea--the debate starts with the person talking. When a subject seems ridiculous, unsubstantiated or simply absurd-- the audience’s usual response is --turn the other cheek. . . (ie) ignore.

As I said, thanks because I’m always open to ideas. When a subject is based on science and verifiable, it catches my attention. Other people however see it differently.

You walk into a room and start giving your piece [of idea] these people inside the room see you like a KOOK with hostility lurking alongside arrogance.

The entrenched cabal mentality in their midst switches into full gear. They abhor mentalist because the idea encroaches into their comfort zone.

I agree (mostly) with your narrative. Most of the responses are hardly based on science. . . at the very least they are mostly for entertainment purposes.

Clowns really are “entertaining” sometimes.