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Charging EVs; top-off charging for personal electronics (phones, laptops, etc.); queued k8s jobs; thermostats; water desalination; hydrogen production.

All of these already have mechanisms to take advantage of renewable output that would otherwise be curtailed. We just need to scale adoption. Unlike bitcoin mining, most of these would actually decrease emissions too (by avoiding consumption during times with higher marginal grid emission rates).

Is our goal to increase renewable capacity, or decrease CO2 output?

Using new renewable capacity to offset new PoW obviously has no effect on existing emissions.

WattTime | Multiple Positions | Remote in US

Hi HN, I work on a scrappy team at WattTime, where we model marginal operating emission rates for electricity consumption around the world. Marginal emission rates are insanely actionable in the fight against climate change, as our users control flexible loads (electric vehicles, thermostats, batteries, industrial loads, etc.) around our signal to know precisely which power plants will be responding to a change in load. This can mean the difference between using renewable energy versus coal.

We are also a founding member of Al Gore's Climate TRACE initiative, where we're using remote sensing to measure emissions from every power plant in the world.

We have a few roles open, with responsibilities ranging from DevOps to ML.

This is the best culture I've ever worked at, and we measure real impact in our daily work. We're run as a non-profit and have great funding. Feel free to reach out: sam at watttime dot org

https://watttime.hire.trakstar.com/

WattTime | Multiple Positions | Remote in US

Hi HN, I work on a scrappy team at WattTime, where we model marginal operating emission rates for electricity consumption around the world. Marginal emission rates are insanely actionable in the fight against climate change, as our users control flexible loads (electric vehicles, thermostats, batteries, industrial loads, etc.) around our signal to know precisely which power plants will be responding to a change in load. This can mean the difference between using renewable energy versus coal.

We are also a founding member of Al Gore's Climate TRACE initiative, where we're using remote sensing to measure emissions from every power plant in the world.

We have a few roles open, with responsibilities ranging from DevOps to ML.

This is the best culture I've ever worked at, and we measure real impact in our daily work. We're run as a non-profit and have great funding. Feel free to reach out: sam at watttime dot org

https://watttime.hire.trakstar.com/

WattTime | Multiple Positions | Remote in US

Hi HN, I work on a scrappy team at WattTime, where we model marginal operating emission rates for electricity consumption around the world. Marginal emission rates are insanely actionable in the fight against climate change, as our users control flexible loads (electric vehicles, thermostats, batteries, industrial loads, etc.) around our signal to know precisely which power plants will be responding to a change in load. This can mean the difference between using renewable energy versus coal.

We are also a founding member of Al Gore's Climate TRACE initiative, where we're using remote sensing to measure emissions from every power plant in the world.

We have a few roles open, ranging from DevOps to ML.

This is the best culture I've ever worked at, and we measure real impact in our daily work. We're run as a non-profit and have great funding. Feel free to reach out: sam at watttime dot org

https://watttime.hire.trakstar.com/