Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Fake Environmentalist Attack on Bitcoin" video.

@sophiet-union Boy what a can of worms your decided to open by bringing up "things that actually matter". You sure you want to start the checklist of things citizens should not be permitted to do because it's directing energy towards things that don't matter? Do you want energy rationing?
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@julkiewitz People buy used graphics cards from miners. It's not actually as bad as one would assume, because miners who are dedicated to the craft keep them cool and nowadays even undervolt them for efficiency. It's an investment and some of the cost can be recouped by maintaining the hardware properly and selling it, miners have no benefit in beating their hardware like a rented mule.
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Hydro can be dialed down. Yes, the river is not turned off but the dammed water is stored and the intake dialed back up when a higher demand is placed on the grid so everything evens out. I assume there's also extra bypasses built into the dam for safety and all else failing, dams usually have spillways that can deal with the water input being greater than the output.
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@pepelapiu2004 No, I think dams have an interest in storing water for when it's needed and they have a greater incentive to be a quick spin up power source.
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@chemicalfrankie1030 All I'm hearing is that energy costs would be 10x cheaper if we started banning activities that don't matter.
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Reason isn't really the best for "that kind" of topical news. I'm all for calling out the tone deaf takes that Reason occasionally puts out but criticizing their timing is frankly missing the point.
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@pepelapiu2004 I don't see how urban planners have anything to do with the fact that hydro is dialed. The usage of a bypass may be a waste, but it's a waste that was going to happen no matter what. If there's an unforeseen excess of water, trying to harness it is the least of your worries. This is the definition of overthinking, if water gets to a spillway the dam was over capacity and there's no point in trying to argue about it. The plant can be dialed in and while you can't stop a river, you can predict how much water you're going to get from the rain and the glacier meltwater and how much of it you're going to store for a dry summer. Hydro is profitable because unlike nuclear it can be spun up to full power in 60-90 seconds. So in many grids the nuclear covers the baseload with cheap energy that is sold in advance, while hydro sells the profitable "quick spin up" energy during the demand periods that can't be fully predicted. It's more profitable to sell expensive power in times of need than having a constant load from the miners.
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@pepelapiu2004 What big picture? I didn't say anything about how dams work, I told you how they work right now. I never said anything about bitcoin. Stop creating enemies in your mind, it's not good for you. I don't care what Elon Musk is doing. He also dated Grimes and named his kid a weird name. Again, you're firing on all directions and punching air. You said hydroelectric can't be dialed. All I did was tell you it can. Now you're angry and talking about Elon Musk. Why?
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@pepelapiu2004 "while basically wasting potential energy production for the rest of the year with flood gates and overflow valves letting out excess unuseable water" - But this happens where? Most dams I know of have the opposite problem - they have to carefully manage how the water gets used or else a drought can severely affect energy production and the regions downstream in the dry months. I know bitcoiners chase cheap power. The issue here is arguing that companies operating the dams would want to devalue their energy when they have a greater incentive to store it and then sell at higher cost when the grid demand increases.
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