Submitted 3 weeks ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to energy@slrpnk.net
Title taken from the article version of this newsletter; posting the newsletter version because that has no paywall.
There are plenty of things we could do with excess power. Green hydrogen production and electrochemical carbon fixation spring to mind.
Realistically, bros will use it to mine bitcoin.
At one point hopefully it gets banned.
That too :)
One day someone will build an entire Dyson Sphere… just to mine Bitcoin.
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.
Xenny@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Desalination? As an uneducated guess
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ooh, another good option!
silence7@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The problem is that electricity will be free intermittently. This means it’s going to require finding ways to use it that are not capital-intensive.