Reply to post: Re: Some nitpicking

Dollar for dollar, crafting cryptocurrency sucks up 'more energy' than mining gold, copper, etc

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Re: Some nitpicking

The cost of resources tends to generally equal the energy cost to extract and purify them. Aluminum used to be insanely expensive, until better methods for processing the ore were found that required far less energy input. Titanium would be much cheaper than aluminum and used in place of steel for most things if a similar improvement could be made in its processing.

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