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That's pretty reasonable, but let's get really serious--You can be more efficient than that. This winter I may buy a bicycle-electric generator, an inverter, an
by wallace_f 9y ago
That's pretty reasonable, but let's get really serious--You can be more efficient than that. This winter I may buy a bicycle-electric generator, an inverter, and use it to power my laptop to mine bitcoins. This heating beats a mere 98% gas heater by capturing generated heat most efficiently: Directly inside my body. The remaining kinetic and electric energy heats my house. And since I need to lose weight anyways, the cost of electricity is less than zero. Infinite efficiency!
I can't wait to get rich and be warm this winter.
- ph0rque 9y agoHow many miles cycled = one bitcoin mined?
- njarboe 9y agoTo the moon.
- wallace_f 9y agoI don't know, but according to this reddit post(1), I could hope to earn maybe 1 cent after a year of non-stop cycling. But I would never be cold for a whole year. 1-https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6cf1wn/i_mined_bitcoin_for_33_straight_hours_with_my/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6cf1wn/i_mined_bit...
- Hextinium 9y agoIf you used Gridcoin then you would be using you computer for something more useful (doing science) and you would get better payout too!
- jaggederest 9y agoAh, but the total efficiency of getting and consuming calories is quite poor. Unless you eat coal, in which case it's probably other problems that are primary.
- adrianN 9y agoYou're doing it for weight loss, so the following is not interesting to you, but maybe other people think that bicycle generators are a good idea for generating electricity. They're not: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electricity-generators.html http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electric...
- wallace_f 9y agoWhich is exactly why transistors were a bad idea. We need mechanical-powered bitcoin miners. I was actually just being tongue-in-cheek from the get-go.