> Soon, the focus will shift from weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and into, "What can we do with all this cheap energy to make life better?". If what you m

> Soon, the focus will shift from weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and into, "What can we do with all this cheap energy to make life better?". If what you mean is "what do we do with off-peak power generation" then yes, there will be some of that, to the extent that we don't: a) fill the need for baseload generation with some form of nuclear power b) find ways to radically improve the efficiency of transmission and storage of excess power But I suspect that for the most part, what will happen is some nuclear, some overbuilding of renewable capacity, soaking up some of the excess with storage (battery, gravity, heat) and transmission inefficiencies, giving local/regional off-peak rate discounts, and simply wasting whatever is left over. Off-peak power discounts might end up prompting additional industrial and compute utilization, but that's dependent on additional infrastructure investment (that by definition will be largely idle during peak power use) so the discount has to be pretty steep to make it worthwhile.