Quite bizarrely, they are being left in mountainous regions that are difficult to get to.
Fonarow said the process of dismantling and removing the rig took hours.
Once we get up to the Twin Peaks, it gets real steep, so we were up there.
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Even more intriguingly, Fonarow commented during the same interview that the bizarre setups might be related to cryptocurrency.
Are shitcoin schemers setting up a secret sun-pilfering system to use Utahs bountiful rays for crypto-mining power?
Our main priority is to remove the items from public property.
How many of these contraptions has the government found?
Its unclear just how expensive the equipment is, he said.
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