[uncletammy]

It would be interesting for miners to offer all merchants within the geographic area affected by their power consumption fee-less transaction processing (free mining for their neighbors) . If it's technically achievable I could see it introducing some unusual but generally positive dynamics.

[jstanley]

It would be easy to do, but the savings in transaction fees would not be enough to be worth the increased energy cost, even for the people who use Bitcoin, which most of them probably don't.