EditorialComputers in a bitcoin mining operation at Albany Engineering Corp.’s hydroelectric power station in Mechanicville, N.Y., on Oct. 13, 2021. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant can be seen beyond the Dnieper River from Nikopol, Ukraine on Oct. 21, 2022. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)
EditorialA dam and hydroelectric facility on the Inhulets River in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2022, the day after a Russian cruise missile strike damaged it. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialA dam and hydroelectric facility on the Inhulets River in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine on Friday, Sept. 15, 2022, the day after a Russian cruise missile strike damaged it. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialSverre Eikeland, chief operating officer of a hydroelectric producer, indicats the previous water line at the Skjerkevatn Reservoir in Aseral, Norway on Aug. 17, 2022. (David B. Torch/The New York Times)
EditorialBucharest, the capital of Romania, a country that also has bountiful hydroelectric power and offshore gas fields waiting to be tapped, on May 19, 2022. (Andreea Campeanu/The New York Times)
EditorialFans at a Bitcoin mining operation at the Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant in Mechanicville, N.Y., Oct. 13, 2021. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Dubossary hydroelectric power plant in Transnistria, which supplies electricity to Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, March 4, 2022. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
EditorialBitcoin mining machinery at Albany Engineering’s hydroelectric power station in Mechanicville, N.Y., Oct. 13, 2001. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)
EditorialFans at a Bitcoin mining operation at the Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant in Mechanicville, N.Y., Oct. 13, 2021. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)