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by mappu 2418 days ago
Even the giant crypto farm is a type of energy storage - as long as you can afterwards sell coins to buy electricity.
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Long distance power transmission can face losses of around 10% per mile.

But if you turn power into coins at point A, then use coins to buy power at point B, maybe you have transmission losses that don't scale with distance?