Great, thanks for having the discussion in good faith. So no rebuttal except to your last point, miners do look at selling energy back to the electrical grid d

Great, thanks for having the discussion in good faith. So no rebuttal except to your last point, miners do look at selling energy back to the electrical grid due to the amount of energy they are able to produce and when it is more profitable or advantageous to sell it instead of mining it. I'm not sure if any have successfully tapped in and done it, but its often part of their sales pitch for investors and other stakeholders, the observation and capability of it. The issue is that the incumbent fossil fuels sites weren't doing that, for decades, so if this is your stance then it needs to be levied at the fossil fuel sites. The miners only may have created this capability, at their expense, so it is really impractical to say they must do that when they took all the risk and had a completely different economic reason of taking that risk. In fact, its still likely not economically viable for all times, only icing on the cake sometimes but not enough to sustain the goal of their buildout on site, which suggests that even a government subsidy on building this infrastructure (without the participation of miners at all) is untenable. Many fossil fuel sites aren't connected to the grid at all, or not well enough. They're just barely extracting enough oil and natural gas to transport elsewhere Which has been its own problem, especially where flaring and fracking was involved, but we know that there is no political consensus on stopping that so we chisel around the edges, bitcoin mining turns out to be one of those chisels. These low infrastructure sites, now with miners, can only have an aspirational goal of becoming energy traders.