I'm re-posting from a question someone had on another thread. might be a clearer on the concept.

"We are based in the US and while there are definitely mining applications, the idea is that the computational load across a larger distributed network essentially becomes the "fuel" to keep the components hot and transferring heat. There's also local computational demand, so theoretically, the device could control anything in your house with a CPU or GPU. Globally, the collective computational power could be tapped by you, or third parties for whatever it's needed for - advanced math, research, whatever. It's not an uncommon model actually. SETI uses a similar platform where they will use a portion of your home computer's power to run calcs - but it's extremely limiting. This prototype is VERY powerful computationally speaking. Essentially, when you plug it into a network of other "like minded" devices, you've got access to a super computer that just so happens to heat / coool your home, give you got water, and act as a smart meter for all of your other digital devices.

That's the idea anyway!"

We are based in the US and while there are definitely mining applications, the idea is that the computational load across a larger distributed network essentially becomes the "fuel" to keep the components hot and transferring heat. There's also local computational demand, so theoretically, the device could control anything in your house with a CPU or GPU. Globally, the collective computational power could be tapped by you, or third parties for whatever it's needed for - advanced math, research, whatever. It's not an uncommon model actually. SETI uses a similar platform where they will use a portion of your home computer's power to run calcs - but it's extremely limiting. This prototype is VERY powerful computationally speaking. Essentially, when you plug it into a network of other "like minded" devices, you've got access to a super computer that just so happens to heat / coool your home, give you got water, and act as a smart meter for all of your other digital devices.

That's the idea anyway!

Air source heat pumps are generally only effective in moderately cool and warm climates. Also, their efficiency / cheapness of use has as much to do with KWh rates as anything else. Electrons are cheap these days, especially with nat gas power plants replacing coal.

It's at the proof of concept stage right now. It's important to prove that we can consistently capture, radiate, and store thermal energy essentially using data packets.   

The idea is that it's doing these things with one electrical input rather than multiple inputs going to a separate water heater or furnace / HVAC system. 

We are partnering with an entity whose technology comes pretty close to revolutionizing air conditioning - it's pretty big and would only really scale at the data center level, but again, if we can get that going, prove the concept, the efficiency factors can be further modeled and improved on for (hopefully) home or even community level use. 

Hello Bitcoin world!

First time listener, first time caller...first....timer.

I'll be as brief as possible. I've got a client who has developed a prototype machine that essentially captures, stores, and when necessary, distributes the waste heat generated from high capacity computing. The prototype and the concept is mostly being pushed out over Energy Efficiency related networks. While my client is a Bitcoin miner on the side, I thought it was time to start engaging the Bitcoin communities a little as well.

In a nutshell, the system is a node in a larger distributed network that is sending high capacity computation back out to the grid for others (maybe you?) to use. In putting that data out to the grid (presumably to similar type machines) the waste heat is locally captured and directed accordingly.

While there are a ton of applications for that extra computing power, your community seems to have the greatest immediate use and quite frankly, the most available source of expertise.

In the coming weeks, we'll be starting a KS or Indie campaign to raise money for R&D. Ideally, we'd actually like to crowd source a lot of the R&D particularly as we develop the distributed networking capacity. There is R&D related to materials as well, but that's wet lab based and will address different issues.

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Would love your comments / questions on the thread, but please feel free to reach out directly via the website's contact form.

Thanks ya'll!

Hi Everyone -

I was perusing Coindesk and found an article that linked to this thread.

I have a client who has built exactly what you are talking about (re: Rig for Home Heating). We call the concept Combined Heating and Computation. It's in prototype form and as of late, we've been trying to build some buzz around it in larger energy efficiency communities, but it could apply to Bitcoin mining as well (among a host of other things).

We are currently in the R&D stage gathering partners for pilot demos and investment. We will be starting a KS campaign in the fall so stay tuned. I'd obviously love to hear any feedback or answer any question you might have.

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