Living sustainably does not only mean having to do without, but also refers to the efficient use of the available resources. A clever way is to use the waste heat from mining cryptocurrencies to heat your own four walls.
• Company offers crypto mining heating combi
• Private miners are already using the idea
• Elsewhere, the waste heat is also put to good use
21energy: Entrepreneurs from Tyrol heat houses with crypto mining
A young company from Tyrol is currently working on products that will make it possible to reuse the heat generated during the mining process. 21energy offers various products in different price ranges, the aim of which is to use the waste heat generated during Bitcoin mining to heat your own apartment or house.
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The two entrepreneurs Maximilian Obwexer and Peter Taschler told the daily newspaper derstandard.de that they guarantee 99 percent efficiency. The device should also be significantly quieter than the classic fan heater. The article also states that two such devices would be sufficient to heat a single-family house of around 120 square meters. Cost point: 980 euros per piece.
However, one of the two founders also explains in the article that there are households for which the installation of such a device is not worthwhile. You should be able to find out whether the installation is profitable or not using an online calculator.
Many private households have already implemented the idea
The Lower Austrian IT specialist Christian Hascheck took advantage of exactly this situation two years ago. He explained to the Süddeutsche Zeitung that he uses the waste heat from his computers, which they produce when calculating the cryptocurrency Ethereum. On some days, he explained, he could even halve his heating costs with the waste heat from the computers.
Nevertheless, the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung explains how the mining heating alternative is linked to a speculative boom. The future of cryptocurrency is uncertain, as is its stability.
As the article explains, waste heat from computers can also be passed on. The computer center of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt is mentioned as an example. The waste heat produced there is used by a hotel located opposite the ECB building.
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