Your counter is just as flawed as you have no way to verify any miners are using renewables. Power transmission is a thing (California does it) and if we weren’t using the power to mine BTC it could be used to power other things. Again, people are only arguing for BTC on this site because it’s hacker news, nothing else.
> Your counter is just as flawed as you have no way to verify any miners are using renewables.
Then any "published study" on this topic is automatically going to be flawed as well?
More like since renewables are not commonplace and it costs money to move its easier to believe they are not using renewables.
You can of course believe whatever seems easy to you, but you do realize that I linked to a published study that says miners are using renewables far more than the US does on average, don't you?
32% of miners use renewables. That’s not even a majority amongst miners.