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The guy I buy my bitcoins from locally is going to do this. He's like the only guy in Wisconsin that has a listing on localbitcoins.com. He sounded pretty excited about it.

Speaking of the future...: 

https://steemit.com/poem/@biddle/nesbit-the-three-nippled-shoemaker

https://steemit.com/mysterium/@biddle/mysterium-is-mysterious-and-potentially-extremely-lucrative

Solar powered mining could only get profitable when photovoltaic cells drop drastically in price. This will eventually happen when more people invest in solar energy which improves the competition of technological advances.

Solar mining is sexy on the surface in my humble opinion. The issue is where you have the best sun production you have the biggest cooling problem and even by using Peltier cooling technology vs. traditional AC the math can still be a problem. I tried underclocking(choking several Peltiers on amperage) to get better results on power draw but it still ended up making a poorly solar run system on an Antminer S3 a couple of years ago. For the time being my thoughts are better to setup a solar location with a balance of sun production and maximum amount of cost per kw achievable when selling all of it to a power company. Then use those funds to simply buy bitcoin.

I enjoyed the read, gave me an idea on how much a small mining operation really cost.

Great article jrcornel, thinking about solar panels down here in Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula) its a great place almost 300 sunny days a year! not to mention eolic energy (wind is a constant here near the sea (30 Kilometers)).

Thanks for the article! This sounds like a really interesting idea, but I wonder how sustainable the equipment will be in the desert running at full power? How much is the desert temperature going to cut down on the lifecycles of those ASIC chips?

Great post dude, thanks for pulling together the info

Have any of you ever thought about using the excess heat miners produce to warm household water? I think this would be pretty easy and cheap to set up.

Free energy mining is the future.  http://www.cheniere.org/misc/oulist.htm

This is interesting information, thank you!

Now the bills for electricity are huge

We have the domain www.solarbitmining.com open for offers. Great investment for clean green bitcoin mining.

Thanks for the recap! I have been considering GPU mining with Solar on Coins that it works with. I do believe that BTC will be better off the more mining operations that get into it. The large miners and pools are mucking it up. Out the decision making power into a larger number of people

I believe in Texas there is a company providing solar power for ~$0.09/ KWH. But where I live the $0.027/KWH rate is much more appealing. I think the answer lies up the staircase, in POS. POS has been implimented and has proven to function. Take a look at PIVX.

Solar powered mining rigs would be awesome but it does sound like a very big upfront cost and not as efficient.

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In my opinion the computer technologies have moved much further than the technologies of alternative energy because it is profitable and a greater focus is placed on the first technology. Although the second is no less important as we can see. Thanks for sharing. Interesting information

I would imagine that he has a deep hole in the dessert where he stores his mining gear to minimize cooling costs?  Kind of a geo-thermal thing if you will?

#payitforward

Alternative energy would be awesome for mining if the price on the market is right.  This just gave me an awesome idea. :)  I will blog it after a research.

Infinite source of energy, interesting

nice post upvoted

Mining is very interesting, i wonder if i can mine in my house, that would be great,
But i dont have enough money to put up a miner,

Before starting here on the platform about two years ago with a group of people we were interested in making our own criptomoneda, the idea was to create an integral platform, walle, pool to mine, etc. Our currency would be called Nitrocoin, a group of people were in charge of making the initial budget and were abysmal, the equipment and the cost of light added up the great majority of the budget. Even so we raised our proposals to three platform as undeliverable works of this nature, but we were not lucky.
Excellent post dear friend @jrcornel, thank you very much for the information, I must admit that I had no knowledge of this place.
Have a great start to the week

I remember reading this on the merkles website.. I thought it was an  interesting idea too, but there are some caveats... I was looking into GPU mining since my buddy wanted to build a rig and he has solar panels in his house so electricity isn't a huge factor. Any suggestions?

Hmm, this is where it has to head. The necessity for a cheap energy grid of your own making is essential in the long run for a coin generation company. You can just change out the old hardware as it becomes unprofitable but keep the renewable power the same!

i think solar power is quite vital in mining, but can't be said to be a determinant for the future.thanks

This works great if the price of bitcoin stays high.