If bitcoin needs anything, it’s more white papers. In this one, @Square and @ARKInvest team up to argue for bitcoin as a key driver of renewable energy’s future: http://squ.re/BCEI-whitepaper 

Hate reading? Here’s the nutshell version:

Solar and wind produce cheaper energy than fossil fuels. This should make them ubiquitous, but they’re held back by an obvious flaw: they produce too much energy when demand is low and not enough when it’s high. Batteries could fix this, but alone aren’t economical enough.

What can fix this problem is an ecosystem where solar/wind, batteries, and bitcoin mining co-exist to form a green grid that runs almost exclusively on renewable energy. Not only is this doable, it is doable without jeopardizing the sector’s profitability.

For much more info about how this would work, check out the white paper link and ARK’s comprehensive open-source model and assumptions:
https://github.com/ARKInvest/SolarBatteryBitcoin

Thoughts? @milessuter’s DMs are wide open.