A Mining Rig that heats your home
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“18723” timestamp=“1372538713”]
Could someone draw me a concept drawing or even just tell me what they think of a Mining Rig setup that takes the heat and uses it to heat or pre-heat the water in the central heating of the house.I would love to show it at the BTCLondon event on Tuesday as just an example of innovation within the Feathercoin community.
And like I say just general feedback would be good too.
[/quote]I could probably get an Engineering friend to come up with an idea/concept, the problem I foresee is with Water being such a good conductor of heat, we would essentially have a very low temp water cooled rig :)
Heating a room would be easier I presume as Air is a much poorer conductor of heat, my shed alone can be 20oC above ambient outside temps.
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i thought about this but in summer what do you do with the heat? I also thought about how to redirect the heat to a stove. :)
In reality probably just a hot water heater for general water usage would be ideal. Everyone uses hot water but heating the house can come and go(79 degrees outside right now).
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[quote name=“d2” post=“18732” timestamp=“1372541236”]
Essentially it would be the same as a normal heat piping system just instead of a boiler, you’d have all your GPUs water cooled and pipe that water around to the rooms with your fans and copper coils, through a chiller, then back to GPUs.Actual room temperature is controlled with a thermostat that just turns the fan in that room on / off. Everything you need is already available since heat pipe systems for climate control of large buildings are already used.
[/quote]Except in this case, ideally, there’d be no need for a chiller as the heat from the GPUs would be exchanged w/ air by the radiators in the home.
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[quote name=“jeremiel” post=“18746” timestamp=“1372550599”]
i thought about this but in summer what do you do with the heat? I also thought about how to redirect the heat to a stove. :)In reality probably just a hot water heater for general water usage would be ideal. Everyone uses hot water but heating the house can come and go(79 degrees outside right now).
[/quote]That’s a good idea actually… Maybe just a simple valve to redirect the hot water flow to a water heater when it’s not needed to heat the home. And a simple heat exchanger if neither is required. Better yet, a heat exchanger in a tower so that the rising air turns a turbine which generates… something. I’m sure an arduino and some sensors and servos could automate it all. And then, solar to help power it all? I’m in. Just need a house :P
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Build a hash rack (4 tiered shelf) that directs its heat towards a metal radiator, such as a copper pipe. You could then easily use that to heat the water for use.
Alternatively, you could build a hermetically-sealed room (maybe 1 meter by 3 meters) with an inlet, and a blower that sucks the hot exhaust into the room for heating while mining.
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Also in between the heat pipe transfer can install a thermoelectric generator
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well in order to do this you would have to build a monster rig just in consideration of the volume of water involved. Probably a couple hundred gpu system minimum just to preheat the water enough so the main heating system would work less but it would not be very efficient. You could perhaps use a mining rig to heat water for tropical fish but you would have to find the magic size to keep the water at the right temp
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[quote name=“whenhowwho” post=“18886” timestamp=“1372607957”]
well in order to do this you would have to build a monster rig just in consideration of the volume of water involved. Probably a couple hundred gpu system minimum just to preheat the water enough so the main heating system would work less but it would not be very efficient. You could perhaps use a mining rig to heat water for tropical fish but you would have to find the magic size to keep the water at the right temp
[/quote]Well for my home - 4 persons 300l warm water tank- I need about 10-12 KWh per day for warm water. So 1 KW continuous heat could do the job ;)
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[quote name=“Wellenreiter” post=“18889” timestamp=“1372609116”]
[quote author=whenhowwho link=topic=2391.msg18886#msg18886 date=1372607957]
well in order to do this you would have to build a monster rig just in consideration of the volume of water involved. Probably a couple hundred gpu system minimum just to preheat the water enough so the main heating system would work less but it would not be very efficient. You could perhaps use a mining rig to heat water for tropical fish but you would have to find the magic size to keep the water at the right temp
[/quote]Well for my home - 4 persons 300l warm water tank- I need about 10-12 KWh per day for warm water. So 1 KW continuous heat could do the job ;)
[/quote]Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like you would have to innovate a lot around the concept and it might be that it’s more suitable as an installation in a new build, where you would have some kind of underground water system. I like the idea in environmental science of ambient energy or taking surplus energy and then capturing it and reusing it. I’d love to see more innovation within the mining community around this area as this will be a big bonus and another argument to start taking down those computers in the dusty old legacy banking system.
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I don’t know about heating house but I know of converting that heat to energy providing you got a plug to feed back into the grid converts heat into electricity having a number of these below they allow to convert your heart into electricity. So you could get free energy depending on how big your rigs are. :)
[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/2l9o9zk.jpg[/img]
Specs: Light weight aluminum construction; dimensions - 3" X 3" X 0.5". Maxium output 15 VDC @ 1 amps 260C. Rated up to 325C. Use of this product requires that you add an air or liquid cooling system which is not included.
Applications: DIY and design applications. Convert heat from your any source directly into electricity for stand-alone applications or to charge a battery bank. Easily incorporates into existing solar and wind power systems. Heat sources can include wood stoves, stove pipe, oil or alcohol lamp, candle flame, campfire, solar, etc.
15 Watt High Temperature TEG Panel Only prob is their about $90 each
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[quote name=“crazyearner” post=“18954” timestamp=“1372626152”]
I don’t know about heating house but I know of converting that heat to energy providing you got a plug to feed back into the grid converts heat into electricity having a number of these below they allow to convert your heart into electricity. So you could get free energy depending on how big your rigs are. :)[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/2l9o9zk.jpg[/img]
Specs: Light weight aluminum construction; dimensions - 3" X 3" X 0.5". Maxium output 15 VDC @ 1 amps 260C. Rated up to 325C. Use of this product requires that you add an air or liquid cooling system which is not included.
Applications: DIY and design applications. Convert heat from your any source directly into electricity for stand-alone applications or to charge a battery bank. Easily incorporates into existing solar and wind power systems. Heat sources can include wood stoves, stove pipe, oil or alcohol lamp, candle flame, campfire, solar, etc.
15 Watt High Temperature TEG Panel Only prob is their about $90 each
[/quote]Genius! Thanks so much for this.
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the biggest problem with the TEG they becomes producing something valuable > 200C so any GPU is already fryed long time before reaching this temp as 95C is the usual stop point.
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buy 15x7950, and let the doors to the rest of the house be open… that will heat EVERYTHING UP=P. im sitting in the basement in 41degrees, getting to the point it becomming an hazard.
had to close the door up and start aircondition so the bedrooms at 3rd floor would be uncomfortable hot… ::)
