[colechristensen]

The next step for people like you and things like nations: what do we do with this extra electricity we have laying around so often?

What people figure out to do with actually free energy will be exciting. There are a lot of extremely "inefficient" things that might suddenly become commonplace.

Proto-replicator technology where you dump your garbage into a barrel and it gets decomposed and recomposed into something similar to crude oil, blocks of metal, pure gasses, etc? Hydrocarbon fuel from air? Flying cars? You name it.

[californical]

Generating hydrocarbons at home from their air with excess electricity is like the ultimate endgame in my opinion. It’d be so sick and enable a million new possibilities, essentially getting us into a net-zero emissions state without needing to use batteries for everything.

I doubt that it ends up being actually better due to efficiency losses but it’d be really cool!!

[Kaliboy]

I often daydream about electrolysing water to generate oxygen and hydrogen and store them to use for heating and like welding torches and stuff.

To make electric energy I would have to make a small steam plant to run a turbine.

[BobaFloutist]

>To make electric energy I would have to make a small steam plant to run a turbine.

Or a hydrogen fuel cell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell

The round-trip efficiency is of course abysmal compared to batteries, but if the input energy is "free", the increased density could pay off.