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I mean, “economy” fundamentally is the allocation of limited resources, if something is limited at a point when it’s needed, then economical doesn’t sound like the wrong word to use? (I’m aware economical means cheap, BTW)

You could actually put some thought into what you devote the energy to, and if wanting to do a blockchain based system, run Stellar or Ethereum nodes. Though they don’t use Proof of Work, so it would not use that much energy, relatively. You could offer supercomputing as a service that run batch jobs during the peak hours though.

Yes, we need to stop thinking “battery” and broaden to energy storage as a whole, which can take many more forms (wind up a big coil! Push things uphill!).

Tout ceci est d’une telle tristesse. Comment en est-on arrivé là ?

J’ai reregardé les premières minutes de la vidéo du contrôle routier à l’origine de l’affaire, leur certitude, leur absence de compréhension profonde, leur manière de répéter avec assurance les formules importées des États-Unis, je sais pas comment on parle à des gens qui sont tombés dans ce puit intellectuel.

À l’inverse des fachos pur jus, je pense pas que le ridicule soit une bonne option ici :(

A thing you can use which gets forgotten often in the conversation is “natural” / physical batteries, or better put stores of latent energy. Essentially, “push heavy thing up hill, make it come down later”.

I know little about it, but you can release the kinetic energy stored in heavy objects at higher altitudes basically whenever, using say a dynamo on the wheels of a wagon of heavy rocks you previously pushed uphill.

Isn’t one the issues with hydrogen motors that they are a bit explodey? Genuine question, haven’t looked into it in a long time.

But remember kids, he’s some sort of business and tech genius!