Sorry if I'm repeating something already said I'm on my phone and it's hard to read over everything...
Renewable energy is very expensive in most cases (such as a GPU Miner) however very easy to do with newer technology like ASIC and even FPGA. Our ASIC Mining Contracts will be using both wind and solar as a matter of fact. Completely off the grid we will have a small wind turbine during the windy winter months and a small solar panel during the summer months. What makes things even easier is that our ASIC Miners use just 5VDC and we'll be using a modified Android device rather than a PC to run the mining software, which also uses 5VDC! That means no DC/AC conversion is necessary and we'll be able to run for days on a few batteries. If for some reason either were to fail we are setup so that our equipment will fail back over to the main grid but we wanted to give this a try and so far successful but the real test will come after all the ASICs are attached.
See that makes no sense.
If you can provide renewable power for less then it costs to run it from the grid it doesn't matter how big your load is it would pay to run everything from it. Especially when the cost per watt scales down the larger your setup is.
In the case of a GPU Miner, even just a single home PC you would require a much larger setup that would cost tens of thousands of dollars! The batteries alone would cost more than you could make in a lifetime with a single rig. You would be surprised at the enormous size of the UPS it took to run one rig for just 15 minutes! Luckily our data center has both battery and generator backups for power failure!
'Your' data center looks to be a bunch of random pictures you grabbed from the web
You either didn't read what I said or mis-interpreted what I was saying. The cost to convert DC to AC is much more expensive and you use a LOT more power to use a 1.5KWH PSU for a few GPUs (that's a huge understatement!)
Powering a bunch of ASIC Miners at only 1W per GH is not only more feasible but also uses DC so no conversion is necessary other than a cheap DC Regulator.
Not only is the turbine and solar panel a fraction of the Size and Cost, but there is no AC Conversion required which again is extremely expensive, and the battery backup for times there is no wind or sun is absolutely nothing compared to what is needed to connect your entire home or business just to run a GPU Miner for 1-2GH at most!
We're just experimenting at this point anyways but it's just running a single circuit that only consumes DC power to begin with.
As for the pics, they were taken with permission by a colleague that is building our website. I never said it was "my data center"... Again, read and you'll see that the business is being run at the data center we work for. I'm a Network/RF Engineer and work out of one of the largest data centers in the Midwest.
I don't think you've thought this through....
Any data center is already going to have a backup system to provide AC power as I assume you'd still want to be able to run all your network gear in the event of a power outage? Or maybe you're fine running a miner with no network to talk to? So the cost of adding a few 100 more watts of ASIC gear is going to be negligible...
But you purpose to run new wires for a DC distribution system straight to your equipment? Maybe you're familiar with ohm's law? A direct 12 volt line is going to need 10 to 20 times the current as your standard 120/240 AC to run the same load. That means you're going to be needing to run some big wires to handle even a reasonable amount of equipment. 100 feet of 1 AWG is probably going to cost more than the solar panels need to run it.
I'm sure you're not the first to go 'hey.... these batteries are 12 volt and my computer needs 12 volt...' but there is a reason no one does it on a large scale. The math just stops working.
I've seen proposals for such DC powered systems, but they're not something you just randomly add to an existing datacenter. They are carefully engineered high voltage DC systems that use double conversion UPS and are built from the ground up.
But that still doesn't do anything to refute my main point.
If you can put up solar panels to produce energy on a cheaper per kilowatt hour basis then you can get it from the grid then it shouldn't matter where the power goes... a few ASIC miners or stright into your main breaker. Cheaper is cheaper and it would make sense to put up as many panels as possible because with very little expection the more panels you put up the more cost effective the system becomes.
Anyone interested in buying solar panels or wind turbines for BTC?? was looking a while ago into setting up a business for this... so just interested in peoples thoughts/interest
And lose the taxes breaks?
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