How would you monetize free electricity?

Say you had it. How would you get money out of it? Besides: dumping it back into the grid, heating an alcohol still, compressing air, hydrogen electrolysis.

Does anyone buy distilled water?

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Depends on how much free electricity you've got and where it is and how stealthy you have to be about it.

    You could take up crypto mining.
    You could get into metal recycling.
    You could undercut EV charging stations.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Crypto, whatever the immorality overall, need a nut to mount hardware, unless you know any company/individual who rents the racks.

      Metal recycling sounds like a toxic hassle. But some kind of arc furnace id listen to.

      I'm near a gas station that doesn't have chargers. But again, I'm talking bayard level.

      treat waste water
      pump water
      melt and purify melts
      electro plating
      uniform spray painting
      electro ground cleaning for agri prep
      cloud seeding
      agitating water for bio divercity
      I would not use it to sure up unstable ground for a foundation of a super skyscraper, dumb arabs.
      o3 generator for sterilization
      ...

      Half these I don't know anything about theoretically. Is there any company that has rollaway whatever? Just shows up in your driveway and uses your power?
      The foundation thing sounds as scifi near future as anything I've ever heard.

      homie if you gonna try to tap into a feeder line you're gonna die and they'll cut you off.

      I'm not stealing anything. Just thinking about a outdoor boiler/solar/wind with that makes anything commodifiable, storeable if there was ever surplus energy. I live so spartanly, I only need a job a fraction of the poverty line to subsist. So aside from going hard at a conventional job, and retiring early, a spotty employment record has been a death knell.

      If you’re stealing electricity grow weed or charge lime scooters

      A vertical farm, but as I very thinly understand it, even that storage container ones use so little electric, it wouldn't be worth the diesel to haul it here.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        > A vertical farm, but as I very thinly understand it
        Where I live growers get caught by their electricity bill. The forbidden plant uses some 30W per square feet depending on type of lightning, up to 80W/sqft for tomatos with non led lamps, 14 h 100 sqft at $0.15 per kWh makes $10 a day

        • 4 months ago
          Nobody.

          I thought led lights broke that tactic. I remember that old cops ep with super homosexual John bunnell confiscating that dude Ferrari when they raided just cause of an electric bill. I'm in maryland, so legal, but sweetheart regulated. I'd be happy to fight that in anyway, but want to die a crime virgin.

          If you live in a place where there is enough interest then running your own, local EV fast charger station could be worth it, but I'm sure the hardware cost is massive. I also imagine that your theoretical nonspecific local power station is more in the range of a few kilowatts, not a few hundred kilowatts.
          The only small-scale investment that is easy to deploy, manage and scale is crypto mining, but even then, the profitability is so low that I don't see a point (given that I have regular income, maybe if I was a NEET, I'd bother to do it). Selling back to the grid is okay, very mediocre income, but zero maintenance.

          Looking forward, that's good. I'm a groud level investor, in an affluent liberal area, so the green washing is peak here. Tons of Teslas but so wealth as to have home chargers. I'm. Not far from 95 though, so over range travelers need them.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >I thought led lights broke that tactic
            They don't. They simply don't have the power for long term grow. They're fine for starting seedlings to eventually put outside, but you can't do a larger grow with them without suffering yield reductions that negate any electrical savings

            • 4 months ago
              Nobody.

              >I thought led lights broke that tactic.
              LEDs don't produce a broad spectrum and plants hate them.

              I had no idea.

              Use it to build an empire of shit posting by staying online all day and then profit massively from your army of influence.

              It's been fruitless so far....

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >I thought led lights broke that tactic.
            LEDs don't produce a broad spectrum and plants hate them.

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    treat waste water
    pump water
    melt and purify melts
    electro plating
    uniform spray painting
    electro ground cleaning for agri prep
    cloud seeding
    agitating water for bio divercity
    I would not use it to sure up unstable ground for a foundation of a super skyscraper, dumb arabs.
    o3 generator for sterilization
    ...

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    homie if you gonna try to tap into a feeder line you're gonna die and they'll cut you off.

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you’re stealing electricity grow weed or charge lime scooters

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you live in a place where there is enough interest then running your own, local EV fast charger station could be worth it, but I'm sure the hardware cost is massive. I also imagine that your theoretical nonspecific local power station is more in the range of a few kilowatts, not a few hundred kilowatts.
    The only small-scale investment that is easy to deploy, manage and scale is crypto mining, but even then, the profitability is so low that I don't see a point (given that I have regular income, maybe if I was a NEET, I'd bother to do it). Selling back to the grid is okay, very mediocre income, but zero maintenance.

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mine crypto

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Buy BEV or PHEV and charge that. Money saved is as useful as money earned.

    • 4 months ago
      Nobody.

      Not if there are up front costs.

      I was in college when Bitcoin came out. I brought my home PC and used it to mine coins for "free" minus my tuition of course in my dorm.
      Left that shit running 24/7 and then I sold it like a homosexual to put a down payment on my first apartment.

      I've been watching it the whole time. Though about just buying and holding as a libertarian cause. All you'd be doing now is making speculators rich. Low character gambling ruins everything.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Crypto is the future anon. Bitcoin is a geriatric digital gold, but the other useful platforms are where the future of the world economy lies. Word of warning, if it is a VC backed coin it exists solely to use you as exit liquidity, don't fall for it.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >extended power grid failure
          >$50 million in buttcoin now becomes $50 million in nothing
          sasuga. Next time buy tangible assets moron-kun.

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I was in college when Bitcoin came out. I brought my home PC and used it to mine coins for "free" minus my tuition of course in my dorm.
    Left that shit running 24/7 and then I sold it like a homosexual to put a down payment on my first apartment.

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Use it to build an empire of shit posting by staying online all day and then profit massively from your army of influence.

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    bitcion

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lots of good replies so I'm not going to tag anyone. There's a fundamental misunderstanding I want to address.

    Example:
    Offgrid canadian Curtis Stone spent $130,000CAN ($100kUSD) for his system. He said it has 96kw of batteries ($27,000USD, about $1400 per 5kw module), and the equivalent of one 18k all-in-one EG4 (luxpower), as two Schneider electric 8k's and separate charge controllers.

    20kw of panels total, arranged in 3x arrays.

    13kw yanmar diesel generator, runs at 80% load, kicks in at 50% battery level.

    600(n)-800w(d) avg hourly draw. 10-15kw per day.

    His starlink alone draws 200w per hour. Although the newer ones i hear draw half as much or less. Has 3 chest freezers (I'd guess around 60w ea avg hrly).

    He has an outdoor boiler w reburner. His primary heating is from wood. He also has propane and diesel.

    "I am not going to use a lot"
    You will. You will use what your system produces or you would have thrown money away.
    "I am going to have extra"
    You might, at certain times of the year, in summer. In that case, you can have a solar bypass dump load that funnels the panel output into resistive heating, like an electric hot water heater. But usually what happens is it's just unharvested power on smaller systems.

    Countless noobs in your shoes, who have never built a system, say 'I have 500w of solar' (panels) and want to pretend they have a lot. Congrats, you have enough to trickle-charge a car or motorhome battery, charge your phone, run some LED lights, run the 12v water tank pump intermittently. That's it. You're not going to have 'extra'.

    10x that, at 5kw of panels per person is more correct. No Tesla (but an ebike), no electric heating (but a circulation pump).

    You need to go on DIYSOLARFORUM and post your specs, and ask for help. I've seen the responses generally, when people want to DIY a system, and they are going to have you wasting a lot of money and being frustrated.

    • 4 months ago
      Nobody.

      Very interesting. What if you had free grid power?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >What if you had free grid power?
        One of the main goals of smart meters is that they make it very easy to locate power thieves.

        • 4 months ago
          Nobody.

          Will you Black folk stop pretending go have seen through something? Answer the fricking question. Turn solar, whatever the frick ever, into something bankable, marketable. Don't respond with this horseshit again.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Answer the fricking question
            The question is a fricking joke so of course we are giving joke answer, frick face.

            • 4 months ago
              Nobody.

              Frick did I say, b***h? That's not an answer.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Namegays go back to plebbit, jamal.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Charge car batteries and perform jump starts by the side of the road. Provide seating while they wait and sell refrigerated beer by the can.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        > what if you had free grid power

        I'm not gay and not a Black person.

        • 4 months ago
          Nobody.

          Relevance?

          Namegays go back to plebbit, jamal.

          Never been. Unlike you.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Battery cell costs have gone down so much that you can get 1kW LFP cells for $70, so you could have 100kW for under 10k if you PrepHole, including additional costs like cases and controllers. 100kW seems like overkill if you have a normal house and aren't explicitly looking to go off-grid with solar only. A genset can easily replenish a 30kW battery when you need it for a very low cost.
      >Starlink
      It draws ~50W unless it's heating itself to melt snow.
      >5kW per person
      For an off-grid system that doesn't want to rely too much on generator, yes, but for a hybrid/on-grid system, that's only necessary if you're also heating a large house with a heat pump. Heating excluded, 5-6kWp producing ~6MWh a year should be enough. Obviously anyone can look at their current electricity bills and see how much power they average yearly.
      >Tesla
      Cars draw surprisingly little power if you average it out, 1kWp is enough for a daily driver that does maybe 20-30 miles on workdays. Of course it's another story if you want to charge your car in the winter from solar.

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Run many different desalinification machines nonstop
    >pump the now fresh water back into the ocean
    Give it a few years and the entire atlantic will be slightly less salty

  13. 4 months ago
    Nobody.

    What about oxygen machines?

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 4 months ago
      Nobody.

      Where is the field change? Under the table with another magnet?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        As usual, it's fake.

        • 4 months ago
          Nobody.

          Well no shit. But how?

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