Topic: Electricity! How its killing me? What to do for power!? (Read 3038 times)
Solar panels are definitely a good option, and fairly cost effective with the tax breaks available.
Hi, I am interested in finding alternative sources for electricity to run my 1000W rig. I only make 180$ a month, but have to pay close to 100$ just for electricity.
Please enlighten me with any alternatives for power.
Thanks
-Nick
steal it Please enlighten me with any alternatives for power.
Thanks
-Nick
Buy solar panels or wind turbines. Those are relatively inexpensive long-term solutions for energy.
I'm self employed and my office space includes electric in the rent. I bet you can guess where I mine.... Moral of the story - rent an office, fill it with miners.
I did that for a while several years ago... not with bitcoin, but with a bunch of webservers. Took them ~2 months before they booted me out telling me that the servers were an industrial use in what was supposed to be a commercial zone or something like that. I didn't have the cash or care to fight it. YMMV.
Funny. I noticed someone selling uranium ore on Silk road while I was browsing through the armory the other day
if you're in the US, you can easily order it fromhttp://unitednuclear.com/
And it's mostly legal too.
<--- die with this 
Maybe rent an apartment where electricity costs are included in the bills?
You can use your neighbor elrictricity, or state , public )
can't believe the nuclear energy website is for real!!
energy is also super expensive where I live (brazil, belo horizonte), it costs almost as much as in london .... :/
energy is also super expensive where I live (brazil, belo horizonte), it costs almost as much as in london .... :/
Funny. I noticed someone selling uranium ore on Silk road while I was browsing through the armory the other day
if you're in the US, you can easily order it fromhttp://unitednuclear.com/
And it's mostly legal too.
Switch to FPGA or sell your rig and invest in mining companies on the GLBSE...
Orrrrr you could just buy 400 BTC (which will run you a little over $2K USD at current exchange rate) and just invest it in a PPT fund, earning 6.5% per week. That'll return 26 BTC per week, which is the equivalent of just under 6 GH/s of hashing power, all using ZERO electricity.
Yeah, mining is dead unless you have an ASIC or something.
Yeah, mining is dead unless you have an ASIC or something.
How'd you get out from under your bridge?
haha, he has a point there, but mr. troll fails to recognize that ppt could default with my 400btc.
Orrrrr you could just buy 400 BTC (which will run you a little over $2K USD at current exchange rate) and just invest it in a PPT fund, earning 6.5% per week. That'll return 26 BTC per week, which is the equivalent of just under 6 GH/s of hashing power, all using ZERO electricity.
Yeah, mining is dead unless you have an ASIC or something.
Yeah, mining is dead unless you have an ASIC or something.
How'd you get out from under your bridge?
Funny. I noticed someone selling uranium ore on Silk road while I was browsing through the armory the other day
if you're in the US, you can easily order it fromhttp://unitednuclear.com/
And it's mostly legal too.
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Funny. I noticed someone selling uranium ore on Silk road while I was browsing through the armory the other day
I have a friend using Uranium to power his nuclear rector.
I'm self employed and my office space includes electric in the rent. I bet you can guess where I mine.... Moral of the story - rent an office, fill it with miners.
I actually know how to build a very low grade nuclear reactor
uhmm... like 1mW?
if you use a bicycle, you can generate around 0.1 to 0.2kwh, My pc uses max 60 watts and 1 BFL single (yet to receive) abut 80 watts. so i have to cycle fast, but would be possible to power this 140 watt setup... but of course you want to have it running (cycling) for 24/7... hmm...
maybe I could look into a gas generator (as natural gas here is lots cheaper than KWH) or fuelcel?
thinking about it... even though electricity is expensive here... cycling for 10 hours generates 1 to 2 kwh, saving $ 0.30 to $ 0.60 on electricity.... unless I want to loose a lot of weight, i eat way more than $ 0.60 those 10 hours!
I actually know how to build a very low grade nuclear reactor using everyday household items. Most people have thorium, radium, and americium (and a few other elements I won't mention) lying around that they don't even know about. It's just a matter of extracting it from your smoke detector, "glow-in-the-dark" watch, and a few other places. Of course, it would be a health/radioactive nightmare. It would make more of a dirty bomb then a actual reactor capable of producing enough electricity to power your mining rig.
Good luck finding a radium watch these days. Glow-in-the-dark watches now use tritium, which is much safer and much more useless in an RTG. (Though an RTG built from household radiation sources would be pretty useless anyway.)
I actually know how to build a very low grade nuclear reactor using everyday household items. Most people have thorium, radium, and americium (and a few other elements I won't mention) lying around that they don't even know about. It's just a matter of extracting it from your smoke detector, "glow-in-the-dark" watch, and a few other places. Of course, it would be a health/radioactive nightmare. It would make more of a dirty bomb then a actual reactor capable of producing enough electricity to power your mining rig.
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Use low capital cost solar
1. Plant potatoes in a sunny location
2. Wait
3. Eat potatoes
4. Pedal generator bike
5. ....
6. Profit
1. Plant potatoes in a sunny location
2. Wait
3. Eat potatoes
4. Pedal generator bike
5. ....
6. Profit
Distill potatoes into high grade vodka.
Burn some in a small alcohol turbine hooked to generator
Drink rest, reminisce on how smart you are.
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