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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