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by amptorn
1579 days ago
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> Bitcoin can use energy in places you couldn’t get to before You're suggesting a scenario where, instead of using energy at point A to do useful work, we use energy at point B to generate Bitcoin to buy energy at point A to do the useful work. In this scenario, 1. the same amount of energy is still being generated at point A, and
2. an incredible amount of additional energy is being generated at point B for no reason
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1) Why would the amount of energy at point B be "incredible"? It would be proportional to the amount of energy that is needed at point A. Either both are incredible or neither is, all that matters is the scale of this example.
2) Why would there be "no reason" for doing this? The reason is clear and you obviously understand it-- to buy energy at point A.
3) Energy can not be generated. Humans can in some cases make use of energy for some other purpose. The total amount of energy is always the same. If the stranded energy in this example was geothermal, adding a geothermal energy plant would not increase the total amount of energy, it would just channel some of that energy into something humans can get something out of, rather than it just dissipating to heat directly.