# Solar panels heating water while hashing — an early energy-compute convergence vision

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2018-04-26
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Solana: The World's Fastest Blockchain (fireside chat at Node) (Solana)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:42 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhrU0W4J05w&t=1002s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2018-04-26-solar-panels-heating-water-while-hashing-an-early-p3rn/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Solar panels heating water while hashing — an early energy-compute convergence vision," Solana: The World's Fastest Blockchain (fireside chat at Node) (Solana), 26 Apr 2018, 00:16:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhrU0W4J05w&t=1002s

## Quote — verbatim

> I'm honestly bullish on proof of work. I can imagine the future when there's solar panels that are powering the heating of my water heater, and all those things are doing is hashing. That's the future we could almost imagine.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Follows Greg's summary that "proof of work is basically useless" and a pushback of "it's not useless." Foreshadows Osuri's later energy-compute thesis, but **Speaker:** possibly not Greg — captions are not diarized and this may be Anatoly.