Re: Product idea

On 2025-02-12 01:48, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:57:33 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
 

On 2025-02-11 22:49, Don Y wrote:

On 2/11/2025 2:00 PM, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 2/11/2025 11:19 AM, bitrex wrote:

A lot of people in e.g. mobile homes in New England and (other areas
of the US
it gets cold in the winter) are stuck with baseboard electric heat;
since the
new administration is so big into crypto it should be decreed that
all electric
space heaters sold in the US should mine crypto, and for the
baseboards you
could also have the baseboard form factor crypto miner.

>
And, the occupant gets to KEEP any coin that he mines!

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Which begs the question, will the earnings pay the electric bill?

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I think bitrex's point was that the person NEEDING heat has
already decided to spend the money on the electricity required.
The realization that the heat could be generated while "doing
useful work" is insightful.
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[I believe electric (resistance) heat is among the least? cost effective]

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A heat pump is the most productive, of the electrical heat sources.
Mining crypto, dunno.

 Couldn't you burn gas, boil water, spin a generator to make
electricity, and heat your house with the condensate heat?
 That would make free electricity.

Certainly, and it has a name. Combined cycle, or something similar. It is a simple as running a diesel generator and heating the house with it radiator, and a heat exchanger on the exhaust.
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Cheers, Carlos.