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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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Xenny@lemmy.world
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Desalination? As an uneducated guess

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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Ooh, another good option!

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silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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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.

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

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banghida@lemm.ee
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Realistically, bros will use it to mine bitcoin.

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keepthepace@slrpnk.net
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At one point hopefully it gets banned.

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banghida@lemm.ee
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No need to ban it just jail the manipulators.

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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That too :)

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

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silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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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.

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gandalf_der_12te@slrpnk.net
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  • non-urgent computing (AI training)
  • non-urgent transports (i.e. construction material)
  • steel, aluminum production
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