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Board Mining speculation
Re: I have 3KW of power that could be used 24/7 but...
by
philipma1957
on 28/02/2015, 14:22:25 UTC
So you're saying you got free power? some how i doubt it. Because those Solar panel can be sold if not used. or you can always sell the power back to electrical company.  BTC mining is all about cost of energy. If you pay 5c/KWh or more, forget it.

LOL, bit skeptical aren't you? Why would I bother making stuff up then ask for thoughts?

The power IS being sold back to the power company and the system is much larger than I need these days (over 10KW) so I have a surplus of power that I am interested in using. It was installed to offset the cost of a server room, as I already explained but that server room is slowly being phased out. That means I also have a pretty good sized surplus of computing hardware and am interested in finding a use for it.

Selling the solar system isn't an option, it cost too much as it was a custom install (had to build a costly custom canopy) so tearing it apart would also be foolish and it would end up being sold at a loss. Therefore, I have hardware and power looking for a good use.

So, now that we are back on track...

Um, who in the world pays 5c/KWh? I have not heard of such low prices in many years.

Parts of Washington state pay under 5 cents.

Seriouscoin pushes reality. If you are under 8 cents you can make some money.

 If you are like me 13 cents - 3 cents for the value of the heat in the winter it is very hard to make money as my net power cost is 10 cents for the winter.

I try to get cutting edge gear mine for 2 months and sell it cheaper to someone like you with low cost or free power.

Once again  buying used spondoolies sp20's or antminer s-5's is viable for you to do.   at 3000 watts you can under clock the sp20's running 4 at 1150gh using 600 watts.

  2 evga 1300 g2's  will run 4  sp20's under clocked.    you will do 2400 watts and 4600 th.

that is the most you can do realistically.