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This is exactly what I do in my residential home — winter heating — the only time I'm mining (Monero, typ) is when my heat pump can't keep up. I have my main mi
by ProllyInfamous 4y ago
This is exactly what I do in my residential home — winter heating — the only time I'm mining (Monero, typ) is when my heat pump can't keep up. I have my main miner eject heat onto my feet/workstation in lieu of an electric space heater.
From my own energy monitoring applications, I recon about 40% of my winter heating needs are met in this manner. I DO use a heat pump for heating between 40°F-60°F, but the efficiency of such a device rapidly diminishes as the temperature falls below freezing. Below 20°F, an average heat pump begins to be LESS efficient than simple resistive heating.
- tzs 4y agoCurrent heat pumps can do quite a bit better than that. Mitsubishi's residential air-source ductless mini-split heat pumps that have their "Hyper-heating inverter" technology, and similar systems from Fujitsu, are still about twice as efficient as electrical resistance heating down to around 0℉. They don’t start getting beat by resistance heating until around -15℉. Their capacity starts dropping at around 23℉ and would be around 75% at -15℉ so if you need to go below 23℉ you do have to oversize your system.