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Heathrow protests: Climate change activists disrupting flights with drones risk 'long jail sentences'
Heathrow Pause activists - a splinter of the Extinction Rebellion movement but separate from them - have said they will operate small toy drones near the transport hub from 3am on Friday 13 September. (www.independent.co.uk) Plus d'info...
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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Any statistic can be "massaged" to suit an agenda. By the time they start circulating as unattributed facts online, they've been rounded up or down multiple times.
And how do you figure air travel is an "easy thing to hate"? By whom? These protesters? How about this statistic...airline passengers vastly outnumber them and I doubt they all hate the concept of air travel. They may hate the execution if they've ever flown on Spirit or Ryanair, but that's a different topic.
And how do you figure air travel is an "easy thing to hate"? By whom? These protesters? How about this statistic...airline passengers vastly outnumber them and I doubt they all hate the concept of air travel. They may hate the execution if they've ever flown on Spirit or Ryanair, but that's a different topic.
You can keep posting this, but it isn't making any sense. Data mining produces carbon dioxide? How, by my breathing? I would be exhaling anyway, so you wan't to count it twice? That would be the only way that data mining causes carbon dioxide, and even if we allowed that, how many people would have to be data mining to cover one transatlantic flight, let along 3 million.
I don't agree with their method of protest if it endangers one person, but .... I don't approve of the excessive amount of pollutants that the aviation industry creates and emits into our environment either. Disrupting flights because there are drones in the air seems a fair way of getting attention .... Seriously, who is going to take off, or be allowed to take off if there are multiple drones in the vicinity? Keep Heathrow shut down for a couple of hours and you might get your message across. Do it every weekend for a year, and .....
I don't agree with their method of protest if it endangers one person, but .... I don't approve of the excessive amount of pollutants that the aviation industry creates and emits into our environment either. Disrupting flights because there are drones in the air seems a fair way of getting attention .... Seriously, who is going to take off, or be allowed to take off if there are multiple drones in the vicinity? Keep Heathrow shut down for a couple of hours and you might get your message across. Do it every weekend for a year, and .....
Sorry for the typos, I are havin trouble with my keeboard and mice...
Have you heard of Bitcoin and how you "produce" them? There are gigantic server farms in China that exist only for the purpose of mining Bitcoin, in spite of the contradiction that trading Bitcoin is illegal in China. They have even designed specialized chips to make the process quicker.
Those server farms consume huge quantities of electricity According to Digiconomist, a company that tracks Bitcoin energy consumption, some 66.7 Terawatt hours of electricity is consumed mining Bitcoin worldwide. Another stat, 34.73 megatons of CO2 is produced annually in the mining process. The same as the entire country of Denmark.
That is a lot!
Those server farms consume huge quantities of electricity According to Digiconomist, a company that tracks Bitcoin energy consumption, some 66.7 Terawatt hours of electricity is consumed mining Bitcoin worldwide. Another stat, 34.73 megatons of CO2 is produced annually in the mining process. The same as the entire country of Denmark.
That is a lot!
That's not "producing" bitcoin, that's trying to fraudulently ripoff investors.
According to another stat, data mining for cryptocurrency produces as much annual carbon dioxide as ONE MILLION transatlantic flights.
Where are the bitcoin protestors?
Air travel gets an undue amount of grief on this matter because it’s such an easy thing to hate.