there is more wind and solar in texas than we could ever harvest. jessie pelton is the c t o, a puddle ranch, a bit coin mining company that only uses renewable power. and we see a huge opportunity for coin mining to be mutually beneficial for the grid. they can act as a buffer in times of power surge and use energy that would otherwise go to waste. but what if international power grids can't, or won't incentivize the downtime for the green energy powered miners? they will be inevitably losing the competition to the rest of the network. and the ones that will survive will be the ones with the most stable power sources. and those unfortunately typically happened to be fossil fuel based power sources. as renewable energy becomes cheaper, a hybrid power model is becoming more popular with bitcoin miners. in 202039 percent of bit coins, global power usage came from renewable sources. if you still want to stick with bitcoin, but concerned about the carbon emissions, the underlying block chain technology can potentially help with dance. you can now offset your footprint by purchasing carbon