Interesting. Sorta like a geothermal concept, but self created. Is that correct?
The only way to make home mining work is to use all of these “tools” at our disposal. You have to have cheap power or excess solar. The mining industry is doing pretty much exactly what I thought it would. I’m sure I expressed that somewhere in on of my threads. Hugely industrialized, country mined, coop with power companies.
I’ll give it a go but I don’t think I’d get more than 2 hours worth of heating per 1000L shuttle because it will be limited to the miner water temperature, whereas if I put a heating element in I could get it hot enough to melt the shuttle lol.
I 100% agree, I’m failing to see how Bitcoin will be decentralised in the future when 5 coalition countries already have 51% of the network hashrate, wait until it’s all industrial, or the Chinese sell more “futures” miners but keep everyone’s miners and take control of the network. Yes it’s far fetched but with how batshit crazy everyone is becoming I wouldn’t rule it out. At least kaspa you can survive with consistent pay with 1s block times solo mining.
the spill reclamation system is genius, especially since my B6D leaks due to wicking – I am browsing your other thread also btw, incredible feedback ty
You’re very welcome. I’m gad that someone can find it useful. ha
The heat rec is continuing to work really well through the winter. I do wish I could get the machines/oil “hotter”. I have the output oil basically peaking at 47C. I have records of failures of the S19XP units at a sustained temp of 50C+. I know some machines have no issues with 50-65C. That would be a dream for heat rec since using it to heat domestic water would work perfectly and you could get “hotter” heat off it for an hvac system. My limiting factor for hvac is the size of the exchanger in the air handler and glycol temps. The exchanger is as large as I can fit in the unit. The glycol temp is really the only thing I can control.
I am toying with the idea of adding a heat exchanger just before my hot water tank instead of utilizing a storage tank. The cost of this would be substantially less. If I got around a 10F difference from the glycol temp in the domestic water at the exchange then that would be pretty big for heating water. If temps drop about 10F per heat exchanger then at 47C (116F or so) I could potentially get domestic water temps of about: 90-95F. It would be two heat exchangers that glycol would pass through. Considering well water is about 50-60F that would help quite a bit for minimal cost.
I think the best style heat exchanger for this would be a tube shell heat exchanger. I believe they are more robust than brazed plate heat exchangers and can handle the minerals in domestic water much better.
