Heating with btc

JohnnyDoe said:

A btc miner that doubles as a boiler! Genius
ry3t.com/en/

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

JohnnyDoe said:

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

JohnnyDoe said:

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