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HotConcrete t1_j02iui4 wrote

Reply to comment by Legal_Refuse in A bitcoin miner and tulip grower team up to reduce costs by Bababakutoto

The video in the article does. Typically these greenhouses use natural gas to heat them. This greenhouse uses renewable energy to power bitcoin servers then uses the waste heat to heat the greenhouse.

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beardedbrawler t1_j03qh54 wrote

Couldn't they just use renewable energy to power electric heaters? This seems like a stupid solution.

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Blastie2 t1_j03qo0o wrote

It makes sense if you view bitcoin as a solution in search of a problem.

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TheChatIsQuietHere t1_j0b1ez5 wrote

Well bitcoin mining computers are pretty much just electric heaters anyway. It's actually pretty good, because you're using the energy to produce heat anyway, so you might as well get some useful computation out of it as its transformed from electric to thermal

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