even if a way could be made to make electric production free. there will always be a way someone will charge for it.
EG people can grow tomatoes in their garden. yet supermarkets charge $1, and they have demand
people can have sex with their wife. but prostitutions charge to service the married man
for electric. even if free some tax or set up cost or cabling inspection/insurance would develop where costs are still incurred
also as avikz says:
Mining can't be free even if electricity becomes free. Rather the hardware cost is likey to skyrocket because a lot of people will then become interested to start mining! It will increase the demand of mining hardware which will push the price of these already-costly equipments to another notch higher!
More people mining means, network difficulty will increase! More difficulty means, more update hardware requirement and more updated hardwar requirement will increase the initial set up investment of every wannabe miners!
Understand the chronology! It's a never ending cycle!
totally agree with this assessment..
.. screw it 10 merit