Re: Product idea

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:04:07 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

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

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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.

There are thousands of district heating systems in the USA.

I spent some time in the USSR. Moscow has a public heating system,
mostly unmetered. If it gets too hot in an apartment, they open the
window. (They have one, if they are lucky.)