> Crypto mining has also taken off in the past year, bringing with it the industry’s power-intensive operations.
Risking the real economy and even human lives for this.
Risking the real economy and even human lives for this.
call it "load shedding"
that's an entire nuclear power plant worth of energy; how noble of them.
no words :'(
Maybe electric cars can be programmed to not allow charging when the grid is stressed. And Smart TVs must power off. Compare that with compelling people to get vaxed to help the herd. Like: social contract, for the common good, gonna kill gramps if you don't vax don't stop charging your car.
The best example in my area is water heaters. The appliance and sometimes even the electricity is provided at a some discount but the power is disabled during peak usage.
But I don't really see how you could incorporate the kind of complex pricing you describe. It would be too easy to cheat.
Curious though, how would it be cheated?
All of that said, a lot depends on the infrastructure. Most places I've lived still have dumb meters...which makes the idea rather moot.
This causes political problems because people like capitalism until they see grandmas dieing so someone can make extra widgets, but it’s the US so we can’t say capitalistic behaviors have to be regulated to prevent that situation, and we get crazily inefficient solutions in response
Unless of course she's mining bitcoins or running a grow operation.
I don't think power, or anything, should be highest bidder wins. But perhaps highest bidder wins above normal usage.
Texas is breaking down because they, for political reasons, want to claim they are capitalist but also for political reasons can’t admit to the consequences of living under such a system
Grandmas literally died during the Texas grid failure but Fox News blamed it on "wind turbines" so I don't see the electorate caring enough to oust their otherwise popular political personalities.