Heating with btc

A btc miner that doubles as a boiler! Genius
that's the future of bitcoin... not a single watt wasted, everyone will have his own node and mini miner at home - protecting his privacy and wealth by contributing to decentralization of the network
 
Unfortunately in hot climates all that energy in form of heat is wasted (save perhaps for a bit of supplementary water heating) 😕
that's true, but water heating is not a negligible use-case - I like heated pools in the tropics 😉

however it's technically probably not the best fit - my knowledge of physics is a bit limited to explain but once I talked to a guy who was telling me that low temperature heat (despite being continuous) is not very efficient for these kind of applications... maybe some of you can explain
 
maybe some of you can explain
simple: Carnot efficiency. The maximum fraction of heat that can be converted into useful work depends on the temperature difference between the heat source and the environment:

Efficiency_max = 1 − (Tcold / Thot), with temperatures in kelvin.

Example:

Heat source at 60C = 333K
Ambient at 30C = 303K
Carnot efficiency = 1 − 303/333 = 9%

This is the theoretical maximum. In reality, you get less than half, if you are lucky: 2-4%
 
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simple: Carnot efficiency. The maximum fraction of heat that can be converted into useful work depends on the temperature difference between the heat source and the environment:

Efficiency_max = 1 − (Tcold / Thot), with temperatures in kelvin.

Example:

Heat source at 60C = 333K
Ambient at 30C = 303K
Carnot efficiency = 1 − 303/333 = 9%

This is the theoretical maximum. In reality, you get less than half, if you are lucky: 2-4%
yep, thanks, that's it
 
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