• naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    There’s an interesting discussion here about how surplus energy shifts the economics of certain fields.

    There recently was a paper discussing repurposing old computers and smartphones for use during periods of energy excess: while this compute might not be practical at average electricity rates, it might be worthwhile to have them available for use when electricity is cheap.