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Well that's easy: a 2kW Bitcoin miner heats your house just as well as a 2kW electric furnace. (I'm kidding but I'm also not; I'm regularly amazed by the fact
by mckirk 4y ago
Well that's easy: a 2kW Bitcoin miner heats your house just as well as a 2kW electric furnace.
(I'm kidding but I'm also not; I'm regularly amazed by the fact that the most complex and intricate computational machines have exactly the same 'output' as the most basic 'heat this piece of metal' contraptions, when looked at as a blackbox.)
- yread 4y agoHave you heard of heatpumps?
- russdill 4y agoWhy do I suddenly hear some familiar jazz?
- mckirk 4y agoI definitely have, and I wouldn't use an electric furnace nowadays unless there was no alternative. That's what the 'I'm kidding' was meant for. Sadly, heat pumps can't mine Bitcoins on the side afaik, so I couldn't use those for the analogy :P
- jefftk 4y agoWhile resistive heating was state of the art for years, and you might as well do some computation with the electricity before turning into heat, we can now make systems that are far more efficient ("200%" and up) by moving heat instead of generating it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump
- anticensor 4y agohttps://bitcoinminingheater.com/ https://bitcoinminingheater.com/ is a thing. It even has a built-in thermostat to regulate its mining output to your desired temperature.