Hey everybody!  Seems like things have settled down for the pool.

As irritating as all the little speed bumps of "Failsafe Mode", unreliable stats, DDOS attacks and the lack of NMC payouts have been; there is a much bigger bogeyman on the horizon... summer.  It is now hitting 70 degrees here in Minnesota.  70 in Minnesota!  That means, for most of the audience, unless you've made special arrangements (or you live someplace with almost free cooling and power, like Iceland), your profits from mining are, or will soon be, "tempered" by air conditioning costs.

I know, I will probably be pounced on by people saying "You posted that in the wrong forum topic", but I think this forum topic is read by enough people to at least get an indication of the level of interest in my idea.

Being an engineer, I decided I wasn't going to take summer's impact on my mining (and my wallet) "laying down."  So, I started thinking about ways to I dispose of the heat generated by my miners without dumping it into the air inside the house, or, more accurately, paying for more electricity to pump it into the air outside.

My friends are telling me things like "immerse your miners in oil" and crap like that, but, in the end, the heat still has to be sent outside of the house somehow.  The only solution I could devise is the same one the nuclear power generators use... heat up water and dump it outside.  Unfortunately, I do not have access to a river to use water from there, not to mention what the DNR would say, so tap water is what I will use.

I know, I know.  I can hear people gasping and saying something like "Waste water!  Isn't that, like, a Cardinal Sin or something!  In California that's a flogging offense!"  True, it is wasteful; but no more wasteful then the additional carbon footprint resulting from generating the electricity to do the mining and the extra electricity it takes to remove the resulting heat from the house (or data center, ahem Ghash).  Since I don't have the finances (or the land-use variance from the condo association) to create a deep-earth-based heat-pump cooling system, wasting tap water will have to do.  In Minnesota (sorry California), water is cheaper than electricity.  Also, I'm using a 340 gallon tank of water for thermal mass, but it wouldn't have to be that large.  So, the water wasted will be slowed to a trickle in and out of it to keep the water in the tank reasonably cool.

I've done considerable research, design and prototyping, and I've come up with a viable, cost effective water cooling solution.  I've found a source that manufactures waterblocks (that don't cost a right arm) sized to fit the Antminer S1 and ASICMiner Cube, since those are the miner models I own.  I couldn't sell the cubes now that summer is coming and the Bitcoin difficulty level is out near Pluto.  The waterblocks from that same source could also be tailored to fit the other larger miners as well.

If you've read this far you must find the idea intriguing or angering.

If you find it angering, please forget you read this.

Those of you that find it intriguing, I'm looking for some feedback.

I'm thinking of offering pre-designed complete water cooling products for the larger miner hardware.  Do you see a market?

I'll create a forum topic as appropriate as the implementation nears completion and I can offer some pictures.

Thoughts?  Feedback?  Interest?  Please PM me.