Quote from: joust on February 13, 2015, 09:12:50 PM

Quote from: johnyj on February 10, 2015, 04:18:34 AM

Use the heat to melt the snow on 3000+ meter high mountains and use the water to drive some hydro power plant. Of course you would need acres and acres of mining farms to achieve that effect and the electricity generated might not be strong enough to drive them

Slight little problem with that is you are trying to create a perpetual machine......

Of course you could just use Hydro electricity created by rivers fed from Arctic snow melt. Just like we do Wink

Here's a nice little video from our sister company about how we power our miners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t5mV0_KVe4

Justin
CEO
www.megamine.com

Not completely true as he is using the energy of the sun to evaporate the water back into the atmosphere so it will snow back down. There is an external source of energy in the system, HOWEVER the odds are the water run off from melted snow would not produce much power at all.