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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 9 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You can get time of use billing at home with many power companies. Only makes sense if you have solar panels or storage batteries or some such.

[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago

I have real time pricing from my utility. It works out well because we charge 2 electric cars overnight for a fraction of what they would cost to charge at the standard fixed kilowatt-hour rate. My house is heated by natural gas; I don't think the savings would be there if I also was heating my house with electricity as I live in the midwest, where it gets cold as fuck for the winter.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

My Volt (and I assume other EVs) has a setting to charge when power is cheaper.