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I wonder what kind of onsite loads they could have to use extra capacity? Is there any high power industrial process doesn't require too much space, setup cost, or transport infrastructure for materials in and out, and can run when there's sun available?

Maybe carbon capture, if that's a thing yet?

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This is the idea behind Terraform Industries: https://terraformindustries.com/

They're capturing carbon to turn into a useful product (fossil fuels) though.

That website--1990s text-only style--is a strong statement. I am not sure if it's a statement that "we're going to take over the world, get on board now" or "in hindsight, we'll say we should have spent more on marketing," but it does get one's attention.

The footer:

> "Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possible. Our website embodies our cultural commitment to allocating resources where they solve the most important problems."

It's quite rich to self-refer as "TI". I feel like Texas Instruments has claimed that.

I thought it was about not wasting bytes on unnecessary stuff, but do they load shittons of JS extra marketing tracking analytics or not is the real question.

Brutalism has been back for a while on webdev

Carbon capture is just like plastic recycling, it doesn't actually work at scale and it would be best to just not produce that much carbon in the first place. We should only be using as little fossil fuels as possible to replace the grid with clean/nuclear power and batteries.

desalinization (does require transport infra, but mostly steady state)

I think H2 production with electrolisys would be such a process to store energy.

One could also make hot water for their own DHW use or charge their electric car.

DC-to-DC EV fast charging

Optics coating

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