Re: Product idea

On 2/11/2025 4:57 PM, Carlos E.R. 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.

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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]

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

I suspect it would be costly (impractical?) trying to retrofit a
heat pump to a mobile home.  And, older homes likely are oil-fired
hot water (or even *steam*) heat, posing other retrofit problems.
A "drop-in" baseboard heating unit with internet connection
seems the easy option.