This is significant The Independent, a liberal leaning UK major news source with a monthly reach of 19,826,000 people, just ran the Cornell University Study whose findings suggest "Bitcoin mining could supercharge transition to renewables" independent.co.uk/tech/bitco… The paper's author Fengqi You is highly respected in his field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengqi… This represents a shift for The Independent, who previously ran negative ESG press about Bitcoin - joining Bloomberg and the Financial Times as publications who have published pro-Bitcoin ESG articles for the first time in 2023. The article contains the acknowledgement "The plummeting costs of renewable energy mean bitcoin miners are increasingly turning to solar, wind and hydro sources to power their operations." and the quote "the beauty of the protocol is that the incentive structure will force miners to adopt the cheapest form of electricity" While this isn't saying anything that those who study Bitcoin Mining don't already know, what's significant is that accurate reporting about Bitcoin mining is for the first time starting to consistently occur in an increasing number of Mainstream news sources this year.