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Podcasts: The Energy Problem Texas Isn’t Talking About | Blake King | Compass Podcast 🔗 2 years ago

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In this episode we are re-joined by Blake King, a Power Systems Engineer. Blake has extensive experience working on modeling power grids. We dig into decentralized versus centralized mining setups, ERCOT and the Bitcoin mining renewable energy.

Blake King

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Will Foxley

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🎥 TIMESTAMPS:

Start 00:00

Intro 00:27

Blake's background 02:12

Mining at energy source vs mega mines 05:58

Mining at source w/ containers 07:56

Demand response 11:56

Curtailment coordination 16:44

Different rules for different sizes 20:43

Stranded energy 23:36

Demand/supply issues 28:25

New demand changes the market  29:51

Is Texas over committing to mining? 30:41

Mining w/ renewables 33:32

Cost of solar plus storage 39:11

Coal solar panels 41:05


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