so i gave some lunch to think about, now its time for the evening meal

unlike things like pepsi whos distributed refrigerators are connected to business/residential electric supplies where the electric bill is of the the electric consumption allocation...

what most people do not know is that power stations know roughly how much consumption they will have and they adjust prices accordungly... but
.. they actually PRODUCE excess to ensure utility is always met.
for instance china consume 500TWH but PRODUCE 600TWH
this ensure the chance/ability of black/brownouts dont/shouldnt occur by any surprise spike in utility/consumption.

i explain this because many large farms dont contract with energy suppliers for the 500thw consumption/utility amount.  but they actually do deals outside the norm to buy up some of the excess

.. those not familiar with electrical supplies.
imagine a carrot farm that sells premium straight carrots to retailers. but throws away its 'wonky veg' which is perfectly healthy just not used by consumers...
then imagine a industry buying up the 'wonky veg' that would have just gone to landfill
it has no impact on the consumers supply, it has no extra cost on the farmer, infact the farmer profits and less waste is created

well thats what the big players do. they buy up the excess energy that would have gone to waste.

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now if you want a treat for dessert to sink your teeth into as some food for thought.
imagine if ASICS never happened whereby we were still in the GPU era of people connecting rigs 100% to domestic energy consumption/bill/supplies

also knowing the GPU hashrate, an kwh used per ghash.. imagine how many petawatthours would be used a year at todays hashrate..

so i hope with lunch, dinner and dessert, i have given you enough food for thought to be full and happy