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ATguy

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Quote from: JPage on April 21, 2016, 02:51:52 AM

But just as applying kinetic energy recovery systems on a car are hard, I think it will be somewhat hard to find the cases where this otherwise wasted energy can be collected and used productively. Only a toaster comes to mind at first.

Some people use electric space/water heaters to generate usefull heat, so using Bitcoin miner instead makes some sence - but then initial costs for Bitcoin miner is much higher than simple electric radiator, so unless the Bitcoin miner prices are lower, you wont see many people heating their rooms with Bitcoin miners instead.

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A self-contained windmill packed with ASICs and wireless 4G connection would do just fine. As part of the yearly maintenance routine you'd grease the bearings and replace the ASICs with more efficient versions.

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Seems like a cool idear, there is one big problem with converting energy from, for example, breaks: you'd need an active internet connection and a running "server" to get work for your miner... Altough this can be done, seems like a really big hassle in order to generate a couple thousand hashes with the energy you just saved.

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Bitcoin is going not too fast but also not slow, you can see everyday bitcoins price has been changed, when halving will very close than you will see the price of bitcoin is cross 550$, may be it will be more. i mean bitcoin price is growing up not too fast but sure.

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Quote from: JPage on April 21, 2016, 02:51:52 AM

But just as applying kinetic energy recovery systems on a car are hard, I think it will be somewhat hard to find the cases where this otherwise wasted energy can be collected and used productively. Only a toaster comes to mind at first.

In principle, something like this is possible: there are several laboratory techniques for recovering waste heat by converting it to electricity, but as far as I'm aware, none of those techniques are used on small scale "consumer" products. But I'm pretty sure the technology is used in large scale industrial applications, so maybe all is needed is a little more development of that tech.

Anyone heard some really up to date info on heat->electricity exchangers?

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In theory, 21's ideas are brilliant and are something to look forward to...

However, by overcharging customer with a cheap computer, people will just feel cheated and marking it a company that focuses on fast profits, rather than a company that grows with bitcoin...

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While we've all had a very serious laugh at 21's expense - their stupid bitcoin miner / raspberry pi that couldn't hash its way out of a wet paper bag - but not so fast...

Here is an interesting concept to be considered.

During the normal use of a car, it becomes necessary on occasion to apply the brakes which is a phenomenal waste of energy - but it is necessary. Grand schemes have been made to recover this energy, but those are pretty tricky and end up making the car heavy fast, which wastes even more energy. Nevertheless, worth considering.

During the normal use of many electronic machines, there is on occasion the presense of some 'waste current'. If these waste currents can be dumped into a bitcoin miner rather than a dummy load - then that mining is without added expense and the machine produces income as a by product - rather than merely heat. In this case, the 21 computer makes some sense.

But just as applying kinetic energy recovery systems on a car are hard, I think it will be somewhat hard to find the cases where this otherwise wasted energy can be collected and used productively. Only a toaster comes to mind at first.

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