Re: Product idea

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:54:09 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

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.

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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.
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A "drop-in" baseboard heating unit with internet connection
seems the easy option.
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Our home computers are already resistive space heaters.

As is our gas cooking range. It puts heat into the house more
efficiently that our gas central heater, because there's no heat being
exported through an exhaust vent.

I've considered trying to recover some heat from the vent, or from the
house drain water, but either would be a bunch of work.