Clothes dryers globally use more energy than bitcoin mining.

But neither dryers nor btc use globally-meaningful amounts of energy.

And neither is on track to grow into such.

The outrage over btc specifically is cuz people are ignorant of the above, or they just don't like btc.

Also because bitcoin mining is location-independent, a number of other positive factors emerge:

- mining is increasingly used to curtail otherwise-flared natural gas, thereby *reducing* emissions

- it's used to monetize stranded energy assets (hydro)

- since miners can be easily turned on/off, it can incentivize renewables projects by making them more cost-effective

- as an easily switchable load, mining can be used to stabilize grids (eat power during low demand, turn off during high demand)

Anyway, all this means bitcoin mining has a better emissions profile than grid averages (unlike clothes dryers), it's likely to continue improving, and can be a boon to power companies and grid stability.