seeing as it is already out there :) There are some geo's that have extremely high number of sunlight days & are also blessed with natural wind (like Hawaii, etc) - how much power does Raspberry PI use?
i added a top post just for more fun, I mean if it is gonna hang out it has to hang all out :) On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 09:06:41 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > Now to the completely unrelated part. > I have been thinking about a project and I would like to bounce it > off you. > A client came to me asking about helping him setup an Etherium mining > server pool. > > This got me thinking. > > In its simplest sense the process is power in ..... ETH out. > The biggest cost is power then cooling to get rid of all the head > from the GPU's. > > What if you glue a GPU with very little extra hardware to the back of > a solar panel. > Stick it out in the sun and let it calculate 8-10 hours a day. > Put a big heat sink on the GPU and it should be able to stay cool > enough just from air cooling > > Take a few thousand of these and set them out in a sunny place and > you would have a coin generator. > Once the hardware is paid for then the operational cost would be > close to 0 but for some glass cleaner and rags. > > They would need to be networked together but it does not have to be > high speed. > It could be a low power mesh to an edge that connects via something > as simple as cell phone data. > > Solar panels cost about $1/watt and there is no ongoing cost but > power here costs about $0.08-0.16/KWH. > On the face of it there is a 3 year payback for the power but if you > add in 30% extra power to run cooling and the building costs for > housing the mining pool. > > > Am I crazy? > --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
