Or encouraging cheap and nasty fuels to be used to an even greater extent. I'm pretty sure miners don't pick and choose when they mine, to coincide when there'

Or encouraging cheap and nasty fuels to be used to an even greater extent. I'm pretty sure miners don't pick and choose when they mine, to coincide when there's going to be 'wasted surplus energy' otherwise. They just add on to the demand on the grid, around the clock. They almost sound like Buddhist monks re: meat eating, from the way you phrase things!