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But they can do that right next to hydro-electric plants with much more reliability.. If I am not wrong, Alcoa did shutdown their plant in central Washington (c
by sremani 9y ago
But they can do that right next to hydro-electric plants with much more reliability.. If I am not wrong, Alcoa did shutdown their plant in central Washington (crypto-valley), so aluminum smelting is probably not that rage anyway.
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Crypto-mining may be one alternative, you are converting energy into currency is the most straight forward fashion. Could be the way, who knows.
- adrianN 9y agoIt's hard to build airplanes out of Bitcoin. That aluminium must be produced somewhere.
- sremani 9y agoThe point, If they are closing Aluminium smelting plants when they are being sold 2cents/kwh from a reliable hydro-electric plant. Wind and Solar's chances are slim to none. I am not questioning the utility of Aluminium here.
- dx034 9y agoYou can smelt it in remote places. Iceland has a lot of Aluminium smelting because energy is so cheap. Doesn't mean that you need to produce the aluminium products there.
- crdoconnor 9y agoAluminum smelting is still popular in Germany where they are being paid to offset the variability of wind/solar there by ramping production up and down. I have a suspicion that this is being used by Germany to feed them a disguised subsidy.