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kevinak

Another idea:

1. Build turbines

2. Stick Bitcoin miners in them (or the off-shore substation?)

3. Disconnect Bitcoin miners when export cable is complete

4. Repeat

5. Save the world

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This has already been happening for a while with cheap hydro electricity from Siberia, if I understand the situation correctly. Did anyone perform a comparison of Bitcoin vs batteries vs new electricity lines yet, is it a viable replacement under certain conditions?

What would the batteries do?

Analogous to Bitcoin, batteries store the value to be used at a later point in time.

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