There are plenty of things we could do with excess power. Green hydrogen production and electrochemical carbon fixation spring to mind.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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Realistically, bros will use it to mine bitcoin.
That too :)
One day someone will build an entire Dyson Sphere... just to mine Bitcoin.
At one point hopefully it gets banned.
No need to ban it just jail the manipulators.
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.
Desalination? As an uneducated guess
Ooh, another good option!
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.
- non-urgent computing (AI training)
- non-urgent transports (i.e. construction material)
- steel, aluminum production