"Arthur Clark was at my house, he is an amazingly interesting person. His predictions relate to scientific progress, and for success, it is necessary to attentively follow the development of science. Herbert Wells, Strugatsky brothers, Stanislav Lem, Vonnegut, Ivan Efremov were more interested in social ideas. Forecasts - a difficult thing, all the difficulties can not be taken into account. With a cold thermonuclear synthesis, Clark missed, but many scientists were mistaken here. But with the Moon, radar, satellites, the Internet, he was surprisingly accurate "
Sergey Kapitsa. Academician.
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Three months ago, in my post on the Russian-language platform "Golos" "Prognosis of Arthur Clark" (1917 - 2008),
I remembered his forecast about displacement by 2016 all world currencies an universal equivalent in the form of a kilowatt-hour.
https://golos.io/golos/@iparasotskiy1/prognozy-artura-klarka
As we all know, it was in 2016 Bitcoin stronger so that came out of the professional range of dedicated and declared itself as an alternative crypto-currency.
I assumed that Bitcoin could well be considered the equivalent of a kilowatt-hour, taking into account the cost of electricity to generate it on the network.
This is directly due to the fact that the farms on which the miners perform work on the formation of blocks, require large energy costs for cooling video cards.
This problem is so actual,
that this directly relates to the survival of small farms that will not be able to transfer their production to the North Pole.
It seems that this problem can easily be solved by generating solar electricity in local power networks of households, to which farms of miners located nearby can be connected.
The secret here is simple - the tariffs of solar electricity in local networks will be much lower than the tariffs in a centralized power grid.
Miners will be able to use more loyal energy tariffs, reducing their costs for mining and increasing profits, and households selling solar energy to the local network will be able to receive stable permanent income from miners in the crypto currency that they help to produce the miners.
MINING BITCOIN ON SOLAR ENERGY MAY BE VERY BENEFICIAL !!!
On the other hand, households supplying solar energy to local power networks can produce their own energy currency.
More recently it became known that Japan uses blokcheyn in Renewable Energy
https://forklog.com/yaponiya-zadejstvuet-blokchejn-v-vozobnovlyaemoj-energetike/
"The Tokyo energy company "Eneres", with the support of the authorities of the Fukushima prefecture, is testing the capabilities of the distributed registry technology for its application in renewable energy and, in particular, for building "smart micro networks" on the Blockchain . "
This is neither more nor less than the emission of energy currency for the organization of mutual settlements between individual owners of solar energy systems tied into a local power grid.
"According to the plan of developers, following the technology of Blockchain, households with installed solar panels and other sources of renewable energy will can share the surplus of the latter with other network members, and receive a certain reward. "
The Japanese succeeded to unite in an experimental local network of 1000 separate households equipped with solar power stations, but this is only the first stage of this unique experiment.
The Japanese start-up Aizu Laboratory will provide a solution, allowing you to write to the Blockchain transactions that were carried out in the grid.
As soon as the energy transactions begin to be converted into Blockchain, the energy currency will be materialized.
This is likely to happen in the next year, 2018.
It seems that Artur Klark guessed again ..