Topic: Harnessing wasted heat? Post your pics and ideas! - page 2. (Read 6253 times)
I am planning to place a PET between my GPU chips and the heatsink to claw back an estimated 40W of the 110W consumed for each 6770. Pics pending Easter hols.
I'll bet those strawberries taste like they were steamed by thermal paste. :/
Breathing the heat generated from computers/ electronics/ cars ect.. is NOT safe !
Breathing the heat generated from computers/ electronics/ cars ect.. is NOT safe !
move your mining kit down to your basement and use an air source hot water heater.
http://energy.gov/energysaver/articles/heat-pump-water-heaters
I have geothermal AC/heat/hot water preheat (desuperheater), with one of these air source heat pump water heaters as the final heat source for my hot water.
it cools and dehumidifies your basement, transferring that waste heat into the tank.
basically, as close to free hot water as you can get, as the more you use, the cooler and drier your basement will be. I no longer need a dehumidifier running 24/7 in my basement in the summer. win!
the only minus is they are noisy (two stage fan on mine).
http://energy.gov/energysaver/articles/heat-pump-water-heaters
I have geothermal AC/heat/hot water preheat (desuperheater), with one of these air source heat pump water heaters as the final heat source for my hot water.
it cools and dehumidifies your basement, transferring that waste heat into the tank.
basically, as close to free hot water as you can get, as the more you use, the cooler and drier your basement will be. I no longer need a dehumidifier running 24/7 in my basement in the summer. win!
the only minus is they are noisy (two stage fan on mine).
Electricity is a very high quality form of energy, and heat is the lowest.
This would suggest that converting heat to any other form of useful energy may not be worth the effort.
So any method of harnessing heat would most likely still involve heating something.
Add a pinch of thermodynamic law and you're looking at a theoretical maximum temperature of whatever your Rig temp is (50-80'c).
So those are more or less your boundary conditions, do something creative with a 50'c air source.
Besides having one in each room to provide free heating from waste power..
..in the past I've used it to heat a tropical fish aquarium and a lizard vivarium.
..in the past I've used it to heat a tropical fish aquarium and a lizard vivarium.
When I build my rig a month or two down the track, I'll run it during the night in my bedroom instead of using the reverse-cycle air conditioner to warm it, as it'll be near the end of autumn by then. I'm also planning to install thermal curtains with pelmets on both windows along with possibly external blinds and rechecking the insulation in the roof for maximum effect in keeping the heat in and making things cozy.
You should totally put those dried strawberries up for sale!
Don't know about you, but they're super expensive here. That's if you can find them.
Don't know about you, but they're super expensive here. That's if you can find them.
That is the end-all and be-all of efficiency. It's called co-generation on an industrial scale, and you are harnessing the concept of entropy to its fullest. Electricity is a very high quality form of energy, and heat is the lowest. If you live in a place where electric heat is economical, there is no cost associated with mining in the winter, at least as far as the electric component is concerned. I like the food dehydration picture. Bitcoin permaculture. Let me be the first to put those words in the same sentence.
Following a recent discussion, I thought it would be cool to start a thread so people can bounce ideas off of each other on all the possible ways of capturing the heat that mining rigs give off.
Since ~99% of the power consumed is converted to heat, there's a lot of potential for recouping or re-purposing that energy.
Obviously if you ever turn the heaters on in your house, a mining rig can offset some of the heating required, but I'd like to see what other creative ideas people might have.
Here are a few suggestions I've seen on this forum:
Since ~99% of the power consumed is converted to heat, there's a lot of potential for recouping or re-purposing that energy.
Obviously if you ever turn the heaters on in your house, a mining rig can offset some of the heating required, but I'd like to see what other creative ideas people might have.
Here are a few suggestions I've seen on this forum:
If I was generating that much heat, I'd probably figure out a way to heat my hot water with it too...lol.
I have a liquid cooled miner. It is dead silent, but the main point is that it heats our bathroom floor. Pictures says more than words, so I attached a few.
Tubes under my bathroom floor and one of the temperature sensors (inside a blue shrink hose). This is now buried in cement and covered with nice tiles.
The best thing about my water cooling and floor heating is that my wife keeps nagging me to buy a second 5970 to make the floor warmer. Beat this with a air cooled system. :-)
Tubes under my bathroom floor and one of the temperature sensors (inside a blue shrink hose). This is now buried in cement and covered with nice tiles.The best thing about my water cooling and floor heating is that my wife keeps nagging me to buy a second 5970 to make the floor warmer. Beat this with a air cooled system. :-)
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