看看《巴黎协定》，咱得多用电啊。常规的这点电哪够我们造，我们得玩那种源源不断的。现在风能太阳能好是好，但是没风的黑夜你靠爱发电？所以最靠谱的还是多准备点电池，在阳光明媚的时候吹着风给你的电池多充充电。

Batteries are the missing piece in the puzzle to enable the energy transition. Remember, one liter of gasoline contains the equivalent of a little less than 10 kWh of energy. But less than 30 percent can be retained as useful power to move a vehicle because of the energy loss in an internal combustion engine. Regardless of where you live, I bet that the price per kWh of useful energy in gasoline is extremely high relative to electricity. You don’t buy gasoline because you want the cheapest energy. You buy it because it’s an excellent battery: Exxon is a battery company.

电池是个好东西啊。你看你开的那个燃油车，比起烧电，那个油价真是贵的离谱，所以赶紧的，麻溜的，埃克森美孚你就该转行做电池。

The network consumes energy to ensure it remains secure. Remember, banks are government regulated custodians we pay fees to mediate trust. Bitcoin has solved that problem in a way where two parties can transact without verifying and trusting each other, circumventing the need for a third party like a bank. But the mechanism requires electricity.

比特币是耗电，但是它安全啊。你看看为了安全，咱花了多少钱找银行当中介，但是比特币它不需要中介啊，任何两个人都可以自由做买卖，不存在信任的问题。这点电费可比找个中介划算多了。

Enter the so-called miners. A miner uses electricity and is compensated with bitcoins. The financiers of mining operations will insist on using the cheapest energy and so by definition it will be electricity that has no better economic use. Bitcoin then acts like an economic battery. What otherwise was of little value locally, is turned into an economic asset that can be used globally. Extremely flexible demand from miners can optimise the local supply and demand for electricity, which may accelerate the energy transition by improving the economics for new renewable projects.

好了，咱来唠唠矿工。矿工付着电费，赚着比特币，算盘打得噼里啪啦响，到处找着最便宜的电。你想想既然这电给了矿工，说明也没人愿意花更高的价钱来用。换句话说，矿工把不太值钱的电变成了抢手的比特币，同时也优化了当地的电力供应和需求，这其实是个双赢的好事。

In discussing this with Adam Back and Chris Cook at Blockstream, I realised that they already have grid balancing technology that plays right into what we are trying to do at Aker Horizons. Sometimes we can pump water into hydro reservoirs and turn intermittent capacity into baseload. Sometimes we will produce green hydrogen and ammonia to reduce emissions in areas such as shipping. Bitcoin is less obvious, but I’m certain that it will enable many more renewable projects than would otherwise be possible. (责任编辑：admin)