Quote from: TheFootMan on October 09, 2014, 05:52:24 AM

Quote from: arklan on October 09, 2014, 05:33:22 AM

we all know about wind and solar and other sustainable power systems. we'd all love to operate our mining rigs off them too. well, let's discuss what it would ACTUALLY take to do, even if only at small scale.

site selection, construction costs, operating costs, tying into the grid to sell the power we didn't use for the hosted mining farms...

i mean, collectively we certainly have a chunk of money. let's consider putting some to use!

think about it: there's plenty of business hosting mining rigs. all that comes down to is cost of electricity and rent. so we use our power plant and the land it's on to host mining farms. then any extra power, we sell to the local grid.

or maybe just skip the hosted mining and stick to building a power plant. "you used your bitcoins to do WHAT?"

There exist readymade solutions where you could put a turbine or two in a river, and harvest the power. Of course, this would have a budget. Solar panels might have a toxic production process, so maybe they're not that environmental friendly when you look at the whole picture.

Is this a serious project? What's your expertise and background?

Of course he isn't serious, he posted an idea on a forum. If he was serious it would say "I am now putting together these things and figuring out what to do." Instead the OP is asking us to do leg work for him to entertain his idea. Forums are mostly places for people who want to talk about their great ideas and opinions, not places where anything gets done(for the most part). Check through the posts, hardly anything gets done because of these forums(unless you count advertisements popping up).

sigh.