RE: Bitcoin is the Alpha; Bitcoin is the Omega.
There are already a few people who are heating their houses with their mining equipment.
You can't really use mining equipment heat to power any turbines (to make more electricity) the heat is too low of grade. However, if you find a substance that boils at the CPU temperatures and recombines in air temperatures, you can use that to make all kinds of electricity. Just got to find it.
In the future, just about everyone will be mining bitcoins. And not on special devices, but on EVERY device. It will be like gold prospecting. People will be doing it so that they will have something that farmers will exchange for food.
Electric motors are not 100% efficient in the manner you said. There is loss in magnetics. Electric motors spin at 1750 rpms as opposed to 1800 rpm like the frequency provided. That loss is called slip. And some electricity disappears.
Of course you are correct that an electric heater is 100% efficient.
Of course, of course, the burning of the coal for heat is far better than burning it for heat -> electricity -> heat.
And far better renewable energy is on the horizon, as you say.
I was looking more along the lines of Thermoelectric generators, but again I don't know if it's viable.
In that case it all about the difference between the hot and the cold.
What is nice, and warming to humans is actually a very small change in absolute scale.
Its not that it isn't theoretically possible, its that it is practically impossible.
Yeah I was just spitballing ideas. Clearly, heating homes is a smarter way to go because it's decentralized and all that heat was going to be generated anyway.
Synchronous Motors spin at 3600 RPM in the US, and 3000 RPM in the 50Hz countries. 1800 is "Half-Synchronous" because the motor has 2 sets of poles to increase torque and cut speed in half...
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Yep, absolutely correct, but can you explain the slip in induction motors?
I'd say it is due to degradation of the original design by Mr. Tesla, but that is likely incorrect. Other than that it is the slewing of the magnetic fields in the composite rotors and the slip turns to heat.
SOLAR over HEAT PUMP over Turbine
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