Next-Gen Solar Energy: Tapping Into the Sun’s Full Power | FD Engineering 

Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings has launched a pilot project to recycle heat generated from Bitcoin mining to warm a community in Finland. The 2MW data center, energized at the end of May, is located in the Satakunta region, home to 11,000 residents.

Yep, photovoltaics is just one branch of the whole solar tech tree. There are rooftop solar water heaters that save tremendous amounts of joules of energy since it takes a lot of energy to heat water (4184 Joules per kg water per degree Celsius). Then there's large scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) that uses a large array of mirrors to super heat a tower where sodium is melted into a liquid to store power for a steam turbine. CSP can operate into the evening with the stored daytime heat.

I totally agree we need more residential solar. Because producing solar locally and using it locally reduces stress on the grid. Every watt generated and used locally is a watt that doesn't stress a distant power plant to generate, also does not stress the grid to transmit that watt either. Residential and commercial rooftop solar is simply magical! No other energy source can blend so seamlessly into the urban environment like solar can. But residential solar is _not_ a prerequisite for large- utility-scale solar. In fact, residential solar should work to complement large-scale solar: (a) Large-scale solar is the most inexpensive form of energy in history right now (b) large scale solar can scaled up much faster than residential can. China right now is building the equivalent of 5 nuclear power reactors worth with large-scale solar every week! Residential solar is not growing as fast as utility grade solar and we need huge amounts of energy to displace fossil fuels wherever we can get it. Speed of deployment is critical given the immediate existential threat of global warming.

@@beyondfossilvery well said

we need to stop people like you. Progress must to go on without you.

we need to stop people like you

Not yours either. You don’t own USA. USA owns you

its not just coastal waters thou. They said they could be placed on dams and reservoirs and also it benefits everyone to produce "green" electricity

​@@tatsm847green energy is just a hearsay