Re: Product idea

On 2/13/2025 10:08 AM, Lasse Langwadt wrote:

On 2/11/25 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.

 here the same idea is used by some big datacenters, selling the heat from the their cooling system to the district heating system
 the local cement factory also adds to the district heating system

The whole notion of a "district heating system" is anathema to american
culture.  The closest thing would be an "institution-wide" heating plant
that distributes heat from a central facility to multiple buildings
on a "campus".  Traditionally via steam transported through below
grade tunnels.
[A favorite occupation in school was romping through the steam tunnels
(forbidden) to get around.  An "infinity phone" (telephone line
with no restrictions) located in one of them was a favorite for making
"free" long distance phone calls (back when "long distance" wasn't
free)]

[I believe electric (resistance) heat is among the least? cost effective]

 it depends, if you have excess wind energy you might as well use it for something and the distribution system is already there.

Huh?  Is that LESS cost effective than electrical heating?  I'm missing
your point...