Specifically, miners in China are often located right next to hydropower plants and buy energy from them when it is cheap.
This is because you can't exactly say that shut off a river, because it rained too much yesterday, and is producing too much power.
Pumped water isn't a great solution as evidenced by the fact that it has been around for a while and people don't use it right now.
Specifically, miners in China are often located right next to hydropower plants and buy energy from them when it is cheap.
This is because you can't exactly say that shut off a river, because it rained too much yesterday, and is producing too much power.