doesn't make sense to go with solar panel over other asic, one asic antminer s9 is currently mining for you a net of $226 per month and cost around $1500?
with the same $1500 you can only have 1kwh of solar panel kit, with batter and inverter, this thing would cover only 3kwh per day, which is really low if you have cheap electricity
and cheap electricity is the whole point for running an asic, regardless of everything, if you have expensive electricity, like 20 cent you are saving something like
1.4kwh(antminer s9 consumption) x 24 x 30 x 0.20, = $200/8(because the solar kit only cover 1/8 of the entire day it was already calculated..) at best $25
you used to be able to get 1/3 of your solar panel cost in the US as a tax writeoff...not sure if you still can.
Also in some locations there are stimulus packages in place to boost the price your solar is sold for...lets say that you get a 1kwh solar kit and only get 8 hours of good light.
Presumably you have batteries to capture and hold these 8kwh of light...Either at hand or through an electrical credit from your local power company.
At night you turn on your GPU's to drain your power back down...let's pretend, for the sake of simplicity that you run 1kwh of gpu's for 8 hours every night and don't use your solar system for anything else during the day.
That's approximately an R4
which currently would net around $7 a day at current prices.
So maybe your setup pays for itself the first year...maybe not. Maybe it takes two years...Maybe you resell your R4 for a loss and you're left with a solar system that will last for 10-40 years? Could be worse...you could spend that 3K on a trip to hawaii and have some memories instead of a source of passive income for however long.
Maybe tomorrow the earth melts onto a plate of spaghetti...or maybe I tell you who the original Satoshi was before the credentials were sold.
Whatever happens...make the most of it.
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