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January 27, 2014, 05:00:33 AM |
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That's certainly possible. On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, depending on where you are at in the world, not everybody is going to get their juice from solar if they are looking for new / renewable energy sources. It'll be blended in terms of the source, and if someone is running their own stuff just solo and not trying to offset their coal consumption, it'll differ from place to place. How much waveforce can you get? How much wind? Are you near a stream? Are you in a sunny place? Do you care about short term gain or not so much? Willing to wait for cryptocurrency to appreciate to approach your desired ROI? How do you define ROI, personally? More people are trying to factor in (even if they are not measuring) ethical, environmental, social, etc.-al, considerations.
Then there's the concept of turning dinosaur burners into hybrid currency burners. Water injection / Fuel vaporizers, HHO cell blocks, etc. Buddy's goodage in Hydrogengarage comes to mind. I used to go to Humboldt State University some years ago - what was cutting edge in 1997 at Schatz Energy Research Center there, and was experimental, is today so old school, as the lab's work has advanced so much, that the university now has a 700-bar compressor and fuels hydrogen powered cars. But let's say you don't have that tech, it's too expensive, not available (hydrogen cars) or whatever. You have a standard dinosaur burner like most of us. Even if it's not a hybrid or more modern vehicle you can drop its dino burnage level by putting in a water / HHO kit. Volo fuel savers can be installed for under a hundred bucks for people who don't want to add an HHO booster. The point in me mentioning this stuff is that it's not a far leap to imagine that whether you are talking proof of work or proof of stake, it won't matter, before long people are going to be demanding that this be integrated into the transportation system. So you'll hop in a car or a bus and be pool mining, because it will be integrated into vehicles. And that is just contemplating a few possibilities for producing decentralized cryptocurrency. The easy stuff is actually the crypto 2.0 operating systems, the blockchain contract developments, donation ware or privacy wallets, and so on. There is more to come that is going to make energy an issue and people are going to eventually want to become more energy independent with respect to how they manage and transmit currency, contracts, or whatever else.
So anyway, it seems to me that there is a 'renewables 3.0' to consider, and basically when I say that I'm talking about the idea that one day most people are going to want to be able to produce much of the energy that they consume or share (while still being able to purchase access to energy), much like society is now approaching a place where everyone will one day produce at least some of their currency (but where people can still, if they want, purchase most currency types), and where what happens with social spending (new public good) will be a much more decentralized process than it is now.
Things to consider.
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