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		Adlai on Feb 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emis... http://www.coindesk.com/microscope-true-costs-gold-productio...

leni536 on Feb 15, 2015 [–]

So it is roughly 20t/kg CO2 emission. 1kg gold is roughly 5 BTC at the moment, so normalized to BTC it's already 4t/BTC CO2 emission for producing gold.

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