Alvin, The bright sun is not the best place to put a heat sink.
How many Watts are we talking about here, and what sort of budget do you have? Can the system be too cold? On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 09:06:41 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Wow. got into a bit of a snitfest with dhaval.giani over this one. > > 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? > > -- > Alvin Starr || land: (905)513-7688 > Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 > al...@netvel.net || > > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk