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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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HairyMaclairy
on 29/01/2018, 00:48:06 UTC
⭐ Merited by yefi (1)
I recall that there are some folks researching into ways that they can either use the heat or generate some additional electricity from the mining heat by-product.

I have had some discussions with power station engineers.  The crux of it is that low grade heat (anything that is not hot enough to boil water) is considered a waste product and dumped to the atmosphere.  And these are fancy, high efficiency co-gen plants. 

 So it seems pretty unlikely that they will be able to generate electricity if not producing over 100 C (which I assume not).

My information is about 8 years old so it is possibly out of date.