Quote from: uralcryptocoin on October 12, 2018, 06:21:55 PM

Quote from: h311m4n on October 12, 2018, 02:21:09 PM

Quote from: Marvell2 on September 23, 2018, 04:10:10 AM

Long time miners have always know about summer vs winter rates, its typical

your sumner rates are actually not bad. I pay .08 in winter and .13 to .15 in summer
I twns to shut down in the summer.

Next summer i go solar so i can keep mining

I have 6kW worth of solar panels on the roof. On nice warm summer days I can mine basically for free for some hours a day. The perfect combo is having double the solar of what you need to mine with and find a good way to store the excess energy to use it during the night. Batteries are the most common solution for this. However I saw a very interesting documentary on storing excess energy with inertia. Very cool stuff.

In any case I have yet to just arrange something with my home automation so that my miners start/stop depending on the watts I produce. Just haven't had time to get to it.

Of course solar panels is great solution if you reside in own house. But what to do in city flats? Unfortunatelly mining profitability now is closer and closer to the electricity cost. Though in winter mining rig can produce some useful heat Cheesy

Mining in flats is more of a hobby, most apartments dont even charge for heat so you are wasting a resource there. I guess one benefit is drying your cloths with the heat, and saving on your electric there?

home owned mining you can have a decent sized farm and and get alot of benifit from solar since residential rates are high most places. Also u can have a heat pump water heater tap off some of that heat and save power and also dry your clothes