[NEWS] Three science links: bitcoin and the environment, Halszkaraptor escuillei, ocean worlds

[rfmcdonald]

• GRIST points out that the massive growth in electricity consumption in bitcoin mining is starting to have an impact on the overall global environment.


• CBC reports on the analysis of the fossil of Halszkaraptor escuilliei, a dinosaur that evokes a contemporary heron more than anything else.


• Universe Today reports on a study suggesting that worlds like Europa and Enceladus, with habitable oceans located beneath icy surfaces, are far more common than Earth-like worlds in conventional circumstellar habitable zones.

Comments

[robby]

I've read that bitcoin miners have moved their operations to Venezuela, where electric rates are heavily subsidized.