Has anyone checked out this system for generating biogas from food leftovers and human stool?
If so, does it generate enough gas to fuel a generator to mine Bitcoin?
This is the system I'm talking about:
https://www.homebiogas.com/
25 sats \ 1 reply \ @Eximpius 9 Nov 2022
It says in their video you can get 2 hours of cooking time. A normal 20 pound gas cylinder for a normal grill gets like 20 hours of cooking time. No way in hell you are running a miner on one of these.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k1 9 Nov 2022
The biggest one might be practical for at least a few hours a day mining if you can find enough stuff that will ferment good. Probably need a couple acres of land and a bunch of animals to make it work. Probably wouldn't be much more expensive to just tap some gas (fracking) just a bigger initial spend.
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTCMiner 9 Nov 2022
I really had to search to find the output details (which, generally, means the numbers from those details are not the strong point of their product so they hide it):
https://intercom.help/homebiogas/en/articles/1418839-connecting-homebiogas-to-the-stove
A very low-end ASIC (S9) consumes 33.6 kWh / day. So the HomeBiogas 2.0 would only run an S9 for about 3 hours per day, even assuming no loss from running that gas through a generator. I don't know the efficiency of a small genset, but let's say a 5 kW Gretech (which I found on Alibaba when doing a search) running at less than full power would have a horrible efficiency. You might see that HomeBiogas 2.0 produce enough gas to run the generator and an S9 for just 1 hour per day. I couldn't even find a smaller capacity genset, though I'm sure they exist.
So, to conclude: bitcoin mining is very energy intensive. While home biogas can have use cases that make sense (e.g., cooking stove use), bitcoin mining is not one of them.
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitdov OP 23 Apr 2023
Perfect! Thanks for this detailed answer
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @purpurato 9 Nov 2022
You would need some hundred cows and collect all their waste in order to run somthing like this. But even then, the cost of the generator wouldn't make it viable.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 9 Nov 2022
деньги из говна... к этому идем?
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