Renewable energy = cheaper and more effective than nuclear power actually. 50% cheaper even. IF you want to look into proper nuclear power. Look into Thorium. If you want to look into 'clean' mining. Set a timer to start mining whenever the solar panels on your roof (if you have any) start to collect power.
Also. With the ability to mine from any CPU device in the near future with a simple piece of software BioMike is developing with the assistance of some other community members like Patrick. The network will see a far better distributed hashing possibility with far less power consumed because people are only mining when they're behind their computer or using their Xbox or whatever. Basically. In order to survive clean energy needs to be decentralized as well. Large companies will never switch to solar power, wind, biomass and others because they think there is no money in that. They might be right, but they can also be too late if there's a large percentage of urban areas decentralizing their own power supply.
Based on our power consumption (two person household), we would deliver about 2000KwH back to the grid annually using an average amount of solar panels (we only use about 1200 KwH lol) – average amount is about 27 square meters of solar panels for electricity and 2 solar collectors to heat water with a 170-180L solar boiler. Which is actually based on stats of generating electricity and warmth on a roof where the panels aren't on the ideal position (south west) in NL. So imagine if you were to point the panels towards the perfect side of the compass and hook a CPU to mine NLG whenever the sun is generating power for you including the rest of your power needs –
http://www.cloudsto.com/products/android-mini-pc-s/meegopad-t01-windows-8-1-hdmi-stick-quad-core-cpu-2gb-ram-32gb-internal-memory-bluetooth-detail.html something Meije found a few weeks ago.
It's possible to achieve the average setup, if you have the room on your roof of course, with €10.000. Even if you loan the money from a bank, you will be cheaper getting clean energy than buying straight from a Dutch energy company. I would suggest anyone interested in decentralizing energy looks into it and combines it with buying the remaining need for energy from a farm through something like Van de Bron.
It'll be good for mining in general, but also for becoming independent of oil and other rather useless fuels.
. Best news of the year so far!
). Also I would like to see if we can build extra incentives for new users, which might be done with pre-mine. All this must be run trough the community first off course. 