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On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:57:33 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

>On 2025-02-11 22:49, Don Y wrote:
>> On 2/11/2025 2:00 PM, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>>> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 2/11/2025 11:19 AM, bitrex wrote:
>>>>> A lot of people in e.g. mobile homes in New England and (other areas 
>>>>> of the US
>>>>> it gets cold in the winter) are stuck with baseboard electric heat; 
>>>>> since the
>>>>> new administration is so big into crypto it should be decreed that 
>>>>> all electric
>>>>> space heaters sold in the US should mine crypto, and for the 
>>>>> baseboards you
>>>>> could also have the baseboard form factor crypto miner.
>>>>
>>>> And, the occupant gets to KEEP any coin that he mines!
>>>
>>> Which begs the question, will the earnings pay the electric bill?
>> 
>> I think bitrex's point was that the person NEEDING heat has
>> already decided to spend the money on the electricity required.
>> The realization that the heat could be generated while "doing
>> useful work" is insightful.
>> 
>> [I believe electric (resistance) heat is among the least? cost effective]
>
>A heat pump is the most productive, of the electrical heat sources. 
>Mining crypto, dunno.

Couldn't you burn gas, boil water, spin a generator to make
electricity, and heat your house with the condensate heat?

That would make free electricity.