Topic: HOW TO MINE FOR FREE OR ATLEAST ON THE CHEAP (LEGALLY) - page 3. (Read 7490 times)

I suppose it's all relative to your power usage, being only a hobby miner at 15gh/s my power usage is low.

I have 4 x 170 watt pv panels and a couple of soladin 600 micro grid tie inverters, that I picked up cheap a while back just to mess about with.

So what I do is not directly run my rig off the PV (well the soladins are plugged into the same ring main as the miners so in reality during the day it is) but offset the power usage by what my panels produce thought the day, so it works out atm anyway I'm not paying for any mining electricity usage. 

From the article you kindly posted:


HHO generators are a net negative. Worthless. Like snake oil.

The Current solution seems not so efficient. I have heard one thing about the material used on the solar plate, rare earth based versus flora brewed. It's been testing for at least six months.

Note that nothing is free. Trust is not free.

Source: https://hk.news.yahoo.com/3%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F%E5%93%A5%E9%A9%9A%E4%B8%96%E7%A0%94%E5%89%B5%E8%91%89%E7%B6%A0%E7%B4%A0%E7%99%BC%E9%9B%BB-223013779.html, Accessed on 4 April 2014

Not snake old eh? Ok. Just use Cold fusion then. Look it has a Wikipedia entry too that means it is real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion


Using electrolysis to pull hydrogen out of water is simple. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water

But what HHO implies is that you can use perpetual motion to generate power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

This violates the laws of thermodynamics and preservation of energy. You cannot take energy out of water at a lower energy cost than the energy you get out of the water (hydrogen/HHO). HHO generators are snake oil.

Don't get my wrong, I'd love for them to work, obviously i'm a geek I have a 7kw solar array on my house. But they don't.

I could see them possibly working on a car to a limited extent since the alternator load doesn't really change with it's generation of power, so you could increase the efficiency of the engine theoretically by utilizing more of the energy, but you are never capturing more energy than it takes to gather that energy. No matter how efficient your system was you'd be better off unplugging it and plugging it directly into the wall. Whenever you convert energy you lose a significant amount of it. Think about the heat out miners generate, a car, etc. it's all energy lost (not lost but being converted into something you don't want). The more efficient the less heat.

If you have a stream or another form of stored energy (plutonium, stream, star (sun), etc.) you can capture some of that energy. But again it takes money to make money. If you want to invest 20k in a solar system so you can have 'free' power please do so. I did

gonna have to stop you there on that one. me and a friend was thinking of a free of charge gym that ran a back warehouse of miners just about a week ago. fancy that. wouldnt need to be paid membership at mast subsidized sessions

I disagree on solar - doing some calculations before on http://www.solarminer.com/ their platform shows that you must:

a) buy replacement cells at least once per year
b) need to scale up your nighttime power cells such that they can power a device for a minimum of 12 hours but a desireability for a higher amount of time for rainy and cloudy days

The other underlying issue is that solar STILL isn't very mature in terms of efficiency and require constant maintenance - dust on top of the glass reduces efficiency for example.

According to this article published yesterday, 20.9 percent is the efficiency record http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/04/solar-frontier-sets-another-pv-efficiency-record

That's bloody terrible. 

OTOH hydroelectric power seems constant provided you have an ample river or stream close by. 

Human powered mining equipment that is hosted in a paid membership gym....hmmmm

run miners hot enough to run a steam generator least at the farms that is.

now thats what im talkin bout! id be inside out by the time i earnt a btc

HHO generators are not snake oil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyhydrogen

However, turning it into electricity burning it wouldn't make a lot of sense as you need electricity in the first place to generate HHO.

Options like solar however are totally viable. Yes, you pay a lot up front for the cells and infrastructure, but eventually they will pay themselves back as the Sun won't burn out for another few billion years or so, and if you generate more than you need your local power company will pay you for it if you are grid tied. My local power company even offers grants and other help for solar projects, and encourages green power development. How this is "more expensive" than city power escapes me.



As an alternative energy researcher myself I have been thinking of how a mining company could implement those technologies to power itself, though many are very underdeveloped and/or are just BS.

Just build one of these. Technically you get paid to exercise (you get BTC as payment)

http://howmuchsnow.com/bikegenerator/100_1378.JPG


http://asicminingequipment.com?ref=a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c

i can make one for pretty much nothing from pretty much "scrap" metal but obviously it needs electricity to run. but far less than pulling direct off the grid

over the long run i presume this may be viable. i am in the very sunny uk so solar outputs may be half of yours. im just looking for a way to shave some usage off seen as i have ordered a miner thet may or may not break even on power consumption.

Oh and HHO generator is snake oil. If you get an HHO generator you might as well order that 125Th system for $10k.. 

There is no magic for free/cheap power. Wind/solar are typically more expensive than city power.

This doesn't make any sense. Some states have expensive power and good return on investment for Solar (California for example.) my California house has a 7kwh solar system.




But California has very expensive tiered power. I live in Texas (that is my rental property in Cali) and our power is .09kwh, so that solar system above would be more expensive than just using city power. So it really just depends on your specific variables. But it is extremely rare to generate power less costly than what you can get from the city. California is just unique...

Hope that helps.

this thread is here as a place you can discuss ideas on how to run your mining rigs free/cheap i.e hho, wind, solar.
NOT HOOKED UP TO NEXT DOORS ELECTRIC POINT OR A LAMP POST.
i have no ideas personally, apart from maybe a hho generator kit, but maybe as a community we can get bitcoin to a green status