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What Will We Do With Our Free Power? (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by silence7 to c/energy

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There are plenty of things we could do with excess power. Green hydrogen production and electrochemical carbon fixation spring to mind.

[–] banghida@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Realistically, bros will use it to mine bitcoin.

[–] keepthepace 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At one point hopefully it gets banned.

[–] banghida@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

No need to ban it just jail the manipulators.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

That too :)

One day someone will build an entire Dyson Sphere... just to mine Bitcoin.

[–] silence7 0 points 4 months ago

For sure. The challenge is that there's a cost of capital, and intermittently available excess power is difficult to use cost-effectively with anything like current technology.