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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Realistically, bros will use it to mine bitcoin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At one point hopefully it gets banned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

No need to ban it just jail the manipulators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That too :)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks 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.