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> Even if many Joules of renewable power get wasted during periods of overproduction (mid-day in the summer in California), other more worthwhile loads could be shifted to use that power, because today it's negative-priced during such periods.

Clearly there aren't such worthwhile loads available, which is why the rates go negative in the first place.

>pre-cooling of buildings during the summer (run the AC in houses full blast during the middle of the day so there's no need to run it in the early evening),

Isn't this counter-productive? The middle of the day is also when the temperature is the hottest, so running AC full blast is also the most wasteful since it generates the biggest temperature gradient (and thus cooling loss).

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In terms of physics, no it doesn't make sense, it would consume less energy to turn it on when you get home (or set a timer for 30 mins before you get home). However electricity is usually the most expensive during the evening, and in places that have abundant solar, the cheapest during the day.

That money should be used to invest in real energy storage and not burning it through asics and useless calculations.

Is that your money? The whole point of money is that who owns it decides where it should be used.

Yes let's ignore that I'm living on the same planet as you do and it doesn't affect myself and my family.

Right?

And no we don't live in a society where this doesn't matter. You are not allowed to do with your money whatever you want.

Buying a hitman: illegal in most of the world.

And you do understand that it is hypocritical to create a ton of co2 and making farming in other countries really hard and complaining later about immigrants. Just putting it in perspective

How on Earth is comparing this to hiring a hitman reasonable?

If your point is that you can't spend money on illegal things, bitcoin is not illegal.

Also, who complained about immigrants? Where did this come from. And even if immigrants/farming had any relevance to the discussion co2 is likely to increase crop yields.

It's just an easy example of disproving your argument.

Bringing up immigration is just a reference on today and what will come due to thinking that we as a society don't depend on decision from others.

It's a global problem with global implications for all of us.

And no co2 hurts us more than it helps us.

This model includes batteries and it uses mining to pay for those batteries.

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