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Where’s profitable crypto mining when you need it? Back yard plasma furnace? Artificial diamond making? Aluminum smelting?
by api 6mo ago
Where’s profitable crypto mining when you need it?
Back yard plasma furnace? Artificial diamond making? Aluminum smelting?
- HPsquared 6mo agoEven just a large water tank which you can choose when to add heat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...
- rcxdude 6mo agoYou need something that's valuable, energy intensive, easy to stop and start, and cheap to build capacity for. Either or both of those last two tend to be the problem for most industrial processes (and also crypto mining).
- leonidasrup 6mo agoThere are may different energy storage systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage There have wildly different prices for unit of stored energy and wildly different storage times. https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/us-grid-energy-storage-factsheet https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/us-grid... It's not cost effective run aluminum smelting only during peak electricity production.