In reference to a post I have just seen:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123221.0How about adding devcoin bounty shares for open source DIY low/reasonable costing renewable energy devcoin mining setups. As part of the conditions I would recommend at least the following:
1) Generation KW/h should match or exceed targeted mining platforms (i.e. cost of running a typical GPU card, FPGA miner, ASIC miner, etc. + some allowance for a bare bones desktop/laptop power requirements)
2) Cost should be proportional to the targeted platform, say 30 to 40% maximum (This makes GPU setups harder, but ASIC setups easier ... however there should be some reasonable limitation)
3) All components should be easily obtainable in Europe, Australia and U.S.A. (left out our Asian friends but that is mostly because I'm unsure of the feasibility of adding them in this requirement - I'm sure Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are all likely to obtain these things but the rest of Asia I'm really unsure)
4) The DIY kit should provide power in 1 of 3 scenarios - a) always available; b) available during day with battery charging for night availability; c) depend on power grid sale/repurchase (i.e. produce extra when power available expecting extra to be sold on the local grid which can then be "repurchased" when the power is unavailable from the kit .... but in all cases the kit provides 24/7 power needs for the targeted platform.
Just an interesting thought to green up devcoin and crypto in general.... perhaps this could additionally be a DVB goal (Icoin?)