Re:All this wasted energy (Score 1)

All this wasted energy sounds like an argument for some stiff taxes on energy. I honestly see no other way to discourage people from wasting so much energy on these things. I'm all for cheap energy, but if people start wasting it like that, just because it's cheap, maybe the cost for energy should include its true cost, which includes the cost of repairing the damage it cases.

Of course that also means we should then invest those taxes into solutions for the problems created by this energy waste. Either cleaner energy technology, or carbon sequestration.

(Also, how is aluminium mining even economically viable?)

Im heating my whole house with this. I would need heat in cold climate even if I did not do it this way. Is it an energy waste when you are consuming the heat generated from mining ? It feels like a really nice way to heat a house to me, and you get paid for it.... can you find other heating systems that pays you to heat your house ?