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Bitcoin => Mining => Topic started by: Kris on March 11, 2013, 01:58:03 AM



Title: Nitinol - A New Free Energy System
Post by: Kris on March 11, 2013, 01:58:03 AM
Anyone care to make an engine that will power bitcoin miners, there should be enough excess heat if you use graphics cards :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZoAFc_DeWVQ#!


Title: Re: Nitinol - A New Free Energy System
Post by: Global BTC on March 11, 2013, 02:04:31 AM
Have you heard of Andrea Rossi's Energy Catalyzer? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer
It's also supposedly doing something with Nickel.


Title: Re: Nitinol - A New Free Energy System
Post by: ufmace on March 11, 2013, 02:06:17 AM
We're from big oil, and we'll be coming for you now...  ;D


Title: Re: Nitinol - A New Free Energy System
Post by: Lethn on March 11, 2013, 03:36:39 AM
For the last bloody time, NO SUCH THING CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE AS FREE ENERGY!

Just because it doesn't cost any money doesn't mean it won't cost resources, what's good about these ideas is that they are decentralised and don't rely on a managed infrastructure to operate.


Title: Re: Nitinol - A New Free Energy System
Post by: Littleshop on March 11, 2013, 03:41:19 AM
For the last bloody time, NO SUCH THING  CURRENTLY IN EXISTENCE AS FREE ENERGY!

Just because it doesn't cost any money doesn't mean it won't cost resources, what's good about these ideas is that they are decentralised and don't rely on an infrastructure to operate.

The OP title is really bad.  Nitinol is not new it is from the 80's or even before and it is not free energy it is a waste heat recovery system.  Maybe more like "Nitinol: waste heat recovery system"

With the advent of ASIC's this is not going to be anything of special interest to bitcoin miners but it could be used like two other technologies (peltier & stirling engines) to get some electricity back from the waste heat of mining.