Bitcoin itself is energy or can be converted into energy. If I can buy wood to burn for energy with Bitcoin, I am converting mined Bitcoin into energy.
But, for those without power due to a blackout, you can’t simply spend money and instantly turn the lights back on. You can either have already spent money to have backup power, or you have a problem. It’s like breathing, if your drowning spending money to be able to breath in 2 hours is useless you need air now.
Which is why electric grid operators need infrastructure not money to avoid causing blackouts.
Sounds like a catch phrase from an "alternative" news site or a thing a member of a religious cult would say.
and is the tree I am cutting a battery too?
wouldn't it be easier (and more sustainable) then to plant trees than mine bitcoins?
Because I can buy fiat currency with BTC, BTC is a fiat currency!