whiteafrican on Nostr: Final thoughts on this. Installing medium sized bitcoin datacentres at generation ...
Final thoughts on this.
Installing medium sized bitcoin datacentres at generation stations could solve this. Any/All of the datacentres can be switched off in seconds and the power immediately made available.
It’s like an inverse peaker plant that earns money + stabilizes the grid.
This is what the Chair of Kenya Power had to say (image):
12 hours with no power across Kenya due to a fault at a generation site.
That’s bad, but not nearly as bad as the international airport not having any power due to the backup generation there being down and flights being sent 4 hours away to South Africa. Embarrassing. 
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2023-08-26 19:17:34Event JSON
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