What Will We Do With Our Free Power?

Title taken from the article version of this newsletter; posting the newsletter version because that has no paywall.

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Desalination? As an uneducated guess
- 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.
- Ooh, another good option!
There are plenty of things we could do with excess power. Green hydrogen production and electrochemical carbon fixation spring to mind.
- Realistically, bros will use it to mine bitcoin.
  
  At one point hopefully it gets banned.
  
  That too :)
  
  One day someone will build an entire Dyson Sphere... just to mine Bitcoin.
- 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.
non-urgent computing (AI training)

non-urgent transports (i.e. construction material)

steel, aluminum production

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