{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Historically one of the ways you could export stranded (renewable) power was as electrically intense aluminum refining, thus...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/646883579806269440/", "html": "<p>Historically one of the ways you could export stranded (renewable) power was as electrically intense <i>aluminum refining</i>, thus Iceland&rsquo;s geothermal stuff and isolated Siberian hydropower dams</p><p>Exporting stranded power sources as <i>Bitcoin mining</i> opens up some interesting smaller-scale opportunities though, I just saw a mine built to run off the natural gas that would be uneconomical to recover and lost from an oil well</p>"}