Topic: Winter is coming. - page 3. (Read 1782 times)
I've got a few gpu rigs and I plan on spacing them out throughout my house in the winter. A few of them are liquid cooled so I can place them in common areas and still hear myself think lol.
There is a small amount of synergy to be had with capturing the waste heat from mining rigs but in general natural gas is a much cheaper energy source to heat a house with compared to electricity. You can lookup efficiency comparisons between natural gas home central air heating systems and an electric space heater. In my region natural gas costs 1/5th that of electricity to produce each BTU of heat.
Natural gas is actually cheaper for heating but it is not needed to operate drilling rigs. What sense to heat the house with natural gas if it is done by drilling rigs which earn at this point coins. I have a small house but I do not have heat. I heat the house with gas. But about 35% of the winter I save. Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
My rig consumes about 1kW, so it is OK to heat the room when the temperature is below 10 C.
Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
I move my rigs inside into my house (they are usually in the garage) during the winter and literally heat my 1800 square foot house with them. When it gets cold I simply open the door to the office (where the rigs are) and put a fan in the doorway to push the heat into the rest of the house. I can heat the house by about 5-10 degrees just by opening the door and turning on the fan for a few minutes. With the door closed, the office sits at around 80 degrees.
The only issue is that the rigs can be a little loud with office door open and the fan running -- but at least I'm saving money on the heat bill.
I have a one floor house, so I am not sure if this would work with a 2 story house.
There is a small amount of synergy to be had with capturing the waste heat from mining rigs but in general natural gas is a much cheaper energy source to heat a house with compared to electricity. You can lookup efficiency comparisons between natural gas home central air heating systems and an electric space heater. In my region natural gas costs 1/5th that of electricity to produce each BTU of heat.
I have a friend that has 2kW of rigs in his house, and by his comments I understood that without a good forced airflow to keep the rigs far away from the bedrooms they simply dry too much the air.
Yes many people up north turn their fan on and circulate the heat throughout their house
Winter is coming and will again to grapple with the question of heating. Does anyone know whether it is possible to heat the room using GPU hardware. When working they produce a lot of heat. Is this enough heat to heat the house. I think it's a good idea to make money and not to pay for heating. What do you say? Anyone have experience?
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