Is it possible to have a climate-friendly variant of bitcoin where miners can only operate using negatively priced electricity (surplus from renewables)? They'd then mostly have the effect of making it more economic to increase the contribution of renewables to base load.
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(Context for all this: a huge problem with renewables is that they can be difficult to turn on and turn off. Both California and Germany, which have large renewable components to power, often have to pay other regions to take power off their hands, lest it overwhelm the grid.)
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