Comment on Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave
Wahots@pawb.social 1 year agoEven if all you have is wind and solar, you can still turn it into baseload power by pumping water up behind dams, storing it in battery grids, or turning it into green hydrogen via electrolysis. Hell, you could even use it to heat up salts until they turn into a molten salt, which can be used for about 12 hours, going off of solar towers with molten salt generators…
Kalkaline@programming.dev 1 year ago
Good point, OP is right then, makes no fucking sense.