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What Will We Do With Our Free Power? (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)
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Title taken from the article version of this newsletter; posting the newsletter version because that has no paywall.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 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.