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Vespene Energy - Burning Methane from landfills to clean the air, made possible by bitcoin mining
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Vespene Energy - Burning Methane from landfills to clean the air, made possible by bitcoin mining

Adam Wright is the CEO of Vespene Energy, they burn methane gas from landfills in order to eliminate this powerful greenhouse gas. The way to make this profitable is by mining bitcoin. We discuss how big a problem methane gas is, how long methane emissions from landfills will last, why bitcoin mining is the best way to solve this problem, why stranded energy is the cheapest form of energy and more.

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Time stamps

01:08 Vespene Energy's mission

02:40 How big a problem is methane emissions

04:20 Idea came to mind by walking the dog

06:28 Adam's back round, how he came to mining bitcoin with methane

07:36 Why mining is the best solution

11:31 Turning a liability into an asset

15:26 Mining is like a datacenter

17:17 Profit sharing

20:33 Profitability assumptions and other uses for the energy from methane

26:29 Off the grid - cheapest sources of energy and grid stabilisation

32:59 Pilot project and future projects

Links

@Vespene_Energy

https://vespene.energy/

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