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Are you seriously advocating crypto mining specially for heating? Would be great if you linked some studies on the efficiency of ASICs vs common heaters.
by yunohn 5y ago
Are you seriously advocating crypto mining specially for heating? Would be great if you linked some studies on the efficiency of ASICs vs common heaters.
- f7ebc20c97 5y agoThey're both ~100% efficient at converting electricity into heat.
- f7ebc20c97 5y agoPlease, let's not get bogged down in a discussion about heat pumps.
- foobiekr 5y agoWhy not? The proponents of “efficient” heating with Bitcoin ASICs are gearing up to mentally lock in another mythical “benefit.”
- dragontamer 5y agoFine. New York City's heating system is powered from the "waste heat" of nearby electricity plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system Not that NYC is particularly unique on this matter, plenty of different cities do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating As such, New York City's heating is practically free (repurposed "waste heat" from the nearby power-plants). Your definition of "100% efficient" is rather... bad. Both heat pumps, and NYC Steam Heating systems are far above 100% efficient by your definition. ------ There's plenty of ways to go "above 100% efficient", when it comes to BTC-as-a-heater idea.
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- cedilla 5y agoWhich is spectacularly inefficient. (If you wonder how that could be, here's a hint: your home is not an isolated system)