What Will We Do With Our Free Power?
What will we do with all this power?
Title taken from the article version of this newsletter; posting the newsletter version because that has no paywall.
Desalination? As an uneducated guess
Ooh, another good option!
The problem is that electricity will be free intermittently. This means it's going to require finding ways to use it that are not capital-intensive.
There are plenty of things we could do with excess power. Green hydrogen production and electrochemical carbon fixation spring to mind.
For sure. The challenge is that there's a cost of capital, and intermittently available excess power is difficult to use cost-effectively with anything like current technology.
