<div dir="ltr">A good use of existing power plant sites with their transmission lines, too. <div><br></div><div>Combine it with the gravity store towers by stacking up shipping containers of batteries. You now have a built-in way to extract and replace malfunctioning containers. The replacements and returns can transit on existing logistics networks. Put a short stack at every power substation with available parking. Probably need to find smooth shipping routes that won't shake the batteries to dust.</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:19 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems to me this is a better way to use excess power.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</b>Roger Critchlow<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 21, 2022 11:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] speculative marketing<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I read the cryptosplaination in the NYTimes this weekend, and it almost made sense, then this.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Isn't there something thermodynamically fishy about a scheme that so directly converts capital into ROI? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bits, and electricity in; bits, waste heat, and profit out; it's almost as if someone made up a parody of economic activity.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And then it gets hot, and the shipping containers start to roar like a parking lot full of helicopters revving for take off. But they never go anywhere, they just roar until the temperature goes down, or the spot electric rates go up,
or bitcoin crashes and the value of committed ledger entries evaporates.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Need a live web3.0cam with 5.1 audio so we can see and hear the future being made.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 12:25 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" target="_blank">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Opportunistic use of wasted energy, I can maybe see..<br>
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/12/23-year-old-texans-made-4-million-mining-bitcoin-off-flared-natural-gas.html" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/12/23-year-old-texans-made-4-million-mining-bitcoin-off-flared-natural-gas.html</a><br>
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but it seems time to move on.<br>
<a href="https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/03/21/traders-bet-on-ether-staking-after-eth-20-upgrade/" target="_blank">https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/03/21/traders-bet-on-ether-staking-after-eth-20-upgrade/</a>
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That part of the country is so pretty. It is a pity there are so many reptiles that live out there.<br>
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