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Title: Solar Panel user here, wondering if I'm a good candidate to start mining. Post by: phyx726 on July 14, 2011, 01:17:27 PM Basically I haven't played any games on my 5870 for over a month mostly because of work. We have solar panels in the house and PG&E doesn't give us a refund for the kWh we produce. I want to do this strictly for side money and was wondering if I'm a little too late to join the game.
Also I've been reading a lot of posts of people who say panels aren't affordable because you have to buy and finance the panels but we actually lease them for about 60/month with no down payment and installation fees. You only pay 60/month with no hidden fees, not sure if people are aware of that. It is a 20-year lease though and you can transfer the lease to someone else for about 250 dollars if you plan to move. And really it was a great option for our family as now we're saving about over 100 a month on electricity. This is what our usage has been since we've installed panels early Feb and as you can see, PG&E took away negative kWh so we don't get to profit from the gains. I need a way to make back the lost profits but need to know if it's still worth doing so. http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/8424/electricbill.jpg Title: Re: Solar Panel user here, wondering if I'm a good candidate to start mining. Post by: MoonShadow on July 14, 2011, 01:22:25 PM Considering that you already have all the gear, yes GPU mining would be worthwhile for you, so long as you can exclude increased AC costs. If you can wait until your heating season starts, you literally couldn't lose as long as you have a script that can turn off and on GPU mining with the available power so that you don't go over your generated amount by very much.
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