It’s the same issue with all power grids, the one in the city isn’t separate from the one in rural locations, hell over here the longest main line is over 1000km long, that’s a whole lot of locations getting their electricity from the same place

That’s ok as long as your solar panels also provide all your needs so you don’t have to put load on the grid that could be put on your solar setup otherwise (if you’re in a sector that’s currently under alert).

Hey buddy, no one serious thinks the way you do, the industry is using more fossil fuel to meet the increased demand even if there’s subsidies for renewable. You’re just recycling crypto bros arguments to justify wasting energy.

I can’t believe I’m still answering that bullshit.

Or we could simply be logical and help fight climate change by not having the Olympics at all

Oh but you’re ignoring that some people’s wage is linked to the distribution of copyrighted content, not all people who work on movies or music are paid a flat rate, artists and actors often get royalties based on distribution long after the fact so people illegally distributing the content are in fact doing wage theft by offering a service (that in this case they were paid for) without paying the wage owed to the people who accomplished the work and that are bound by a contract that makes them entitled to royalties for the rest of their lives.

Current peaks are higher than they need to be because people are wasting energy, all you want is to increase demand as if that had no environmental impact. I’m done here.

“by contract or law” so just like the legal copyright owner already owns the “wage” associated with the distribution of content by law and they’re entitled to a payment in exchange for the right to distribute the things they own the copyright of and a distributor failing to pay them is therefore committing theft the same way that wage theft is theft?

Find me one major AI or crypto company that will accept to shut down their infrastructure when there’s high load from households and offices.

You guys are fucking delusional. There’s so much efficiency to be gained by stopping all the energy waste, instead you’re pushing for us to use more and more energy so we build more infrastructure as if there was no environmental impact to it. Until you’re able to pull the material to produce the the panels from your ass, the most efficient and environmentally friendly thing to do it always to reduce first and foremost.

Hydro Sherbrooke can only sell at the same rate as Hydro Quebec, doesn’t make a difference what provider you use.

Nope, you don’t :)

See, you’re exactly the kind of person I’m talking about. Hydro Quebec will have to invest a fortune to create more infrastructure because of people like you. Our population is wasting about 25TWh at the moment and instead of pushing people to be fucking responsible with their energy usage, HQ will have to reduce their royalties to the government (that are used to pay for services to the population) in order to invest in the creation of wind turbine parks and guess what, that means we’ll have to pay more taxes or everyone’s hydro bill will increase to compensate for the little shits like you and there will be a huge environmental impact because contrary to what you morons believe we don’t just pull the materials necessary to build wind turbines out of our ass.

So you wasting energy on that crap will have a direct impact on my own wallet so fuck you. You don’t give a fucking crap about the environment, stop pretending you do.

It’s a general “you”, I’m not talking about you as a person specifically.

So exactly, it’s moronic to use it for AI when we could store it or reduce our usage and have less needs or transport it over longer distances for it to be used where they rely on fossil fuel.

By the way, this conversation started with hydro so challenges are different and worst case just letting water through isn’t a bad thing as there’s ecological impact to just keeping the water in the reservoirs and letting the level rise while there’s no water downstream.

Oh you make spell it very clearly that you’re just making a bunch of assumptions and don’t understand what refurbished means or how mass production works, no need to worry.

Again, you’re assuming they had more content than multiple legit distributors and none of it was available elsewhere without proving it was the case.

So wage theft isn’t theft

Did you skip the “but more seriously” part and everything that came after right after I said “Sanders”? 🤔 Because I’m saying exactly what you’re saying.

Also, you can vote for Sanders so he keeps his position in the Senate so it’s actually not false that people need to vote for him.

Would help if people stopped using renewable for useless stuff so we could use it for essentials instead of having to build new renewable infrastructure in order to provide energy for both.

You must also be a crypto mining apologist, right?

That load should come from providing clean energy to places that burn fossil fuel, not from creating artificial demand for useless stuff.

As I said, you’re using the exact same arguments as crypto Bros.

I expect the failure rate to be higher than on a brand new product, you’re just making the assumption that because it failed once (if it actually did, could simply be a disk that was returned after purchase) it will fail again as quickly, which is a pretty bad assessment.