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are there any miners out there who generate their own electricity with:

1. solar power
2. biomass generators
3. diesel generators

if you have any experience with these forms of electricity generation for home mining, or any not on the list, please share your experiences with the forum

thanks

share of Mining experiences will be useless to build any planning or ideas on mining because they differ according to the most prominent factors.

• where you are and how much your electricity per W?
• Did you buy mining equipment and what is the price?
• Area, weather, and cooling process of mining equipment.
• Noise control (if you are in a remote village you may not care)
• Average mining yield and bitcoin price? Are you planning to hold coins for a long time and have enough cash to start?
• Opportunity cost (buying bitcoin instead of mining it)

And many, many more factors that make storytelling useless.
The only thing you can profit from is the mistakes of others

On the large-scale solar mining side of things, Blockstream and Block (Square) have an interesting project going; https://blog.blockstream.com/blockstream-and-block-inc-s-solar-mining-facility-now-powered-by-tesla-solar-pv-and-megapack/

I'm looking forward to seeing some more information published about this project

we have a major build for us underway 285kwatts maybe July 31 or August it will fire up.
we have a paid off build 110kwatts
we have a paid off build 45 kwatts

adds to 440kwatts divide by 5 to 24/7/365 grid average 88 kwatts an hour for “free”

Still cant get a big money guy here in Jersey to invest in 3 or 4 megawatt build.

maybe next bull run.

NJ has very good laws for Solar.

Which is why grid electricity is very expensive in Joisey for people who don't own solar systems

Besides stranded energy like flare gas I just can't see how it would remotely be profitable.

The only way I can see anything like that working out money wise is solar depending on area. It may reduce your metering  rate in your favor.

That's about all I can think.

Self suficient?
No way, solar without grid means you're going to turn your miners half a day off or you're going to spend more on batteries and increase capacity than it would be economically viable. Biomass energy is not cheap and diesel-powered generators are far more costly than grid and not designed to run 24/7/ all year long.


They are hosting 250 of their 60 000 miners on a small solar farm with a few tesla batteries, it was just a publicity stunt to show they could go green, nothing else meanwhile they are expanding their gas-powered data center in Adel by 100MW to 400MW, just the expansion is 25x times than of their solar patch.

250 miners?! That’s a lot! Not a small solar farm at all.