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Joohansson

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love the idea but seems to need a ridiculous number of miners to achieve

According to my calculations: 1000-2000W graphic card power for a 110 m2 house is enough depending on winter climate. You only need to transfer the air flow through the rooms, but I already have a ventilation system for that.

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Only if the ASIC miners costed much less then I wold do it. The only problem is summer...

enviouk

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I've actually been planning on doing this for the winter, it's quite funny when you factor in the amount of money you save from heating for the quality you get with a decent scale rig. Quite problematic in the summer but if you get a good haul from winter it shouldn't be a problem!

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Anyone cooked the turkey dinner for Thanksgiving on graphics card-powered oven?

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Interesting observation. Of course you can produce enough heat with those older models to make a room heat up.

Joohansson

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Quote from: WayTooGosu on November 29, 2013, 11:50:33 PM

You could do this, but wouldn't it endanger the mining equipment if you let it heat up that much?

Well, as long as the fans and heatsinks transport the heat it no problem. The fans also need electricity but that too end up in heat.

My whole house consumes about 2000W during the winter, that is like 4 graphic cards or something, not that expensive.

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Quote from: Scythe_001 on November 30, 2013, 12:22:17 AM

Heating a house? Small fry.
I want to see people cook food with their mining rigs.

I'm sure you could fry an egg on some of 'em.

Scythe_001

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Heating a house? Small fry.
I want to see people cook food with their mining rigs.

402test

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That would be an expensive heating system

WayTooGosu

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You could do this, but wouldn't it endanger the mining equipment if you let it heat up that much?

rarkenin

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Those would be some expensive heaters that stop heating once there's an internet failure.

grosbill

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A friend of mine was thinking of a wonderful business model.
You provide free heaters to company, this thing being that the heaters mine for you (and the electricity bill is paid by the customers) Wink

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Very intereesting you need alot of miners no?

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I've got a dual 5850 rig that makes my house hot as hell when I have them both overclocked, have to keep all the windows open in summer

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I wish I had enough hardware where I could worry about that Grin

Joohansson

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Quote from: ApatheticAndrew on November 29, 2013, 07:22:21 PM

Yes you could heat your house with mining equipment but you'd need lot of machines, I wouldn't recommend it. Yes it requires energy to write a 1 or 0 to hard disk, computers are not magic sir.

So if it take 10Wh to format a hard drive I would get less than 10Wh as heat energy?

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Quote from: Joohansson on November 29, 2013, 07:08:02 PM

If you heat hour house only with electricity. Is it possible to heat it for free if you use lots of mining hardware? I find it interesting that you can create heat+information=energy when heat=energy. The information created by computers is free and contains no energy but still exist more than no information.. Or is energy required to write a 0 or 1 on a hard drive (that is not transferred to heat)?

Yes many helped heating homes with GPU mining, it is handy in winter. But in summer, you need cool down your house a lot with climatization if you want continue to mine in summer as well (thus electricity bill might cost 2x more in summer)

ApatheticAndrew

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Yes you could heat your house with mining equipment but you'd need lot of machines, I wouldn't recommend it. Yes it requires energy to write a 1 or 0 to hard disk, computers are not magic sir.

Joohansson

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If you heat hour house only with electricity. Is it possible to heat it for free if you use lots of mining hardware? I find it interesting that you can create heat+information=energy when heat=energy. The information created by computers is free and contains no energy but still exist more than no information.. Or is energy required to write a 0 or 1 on a hard drive (that is not transferred to heat)?

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