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[kingcolex]

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[notlist3d]

Not that I'm aware of.  Small hobby miners do seem to use the heat to their advantage.

But the big boys of mining seem to be more worried about getting the heat out then reusing it.   I think it might be hard to reuse at levels they are doing.   Some are massive amounts of CFM.

So what you used it on might have a ton of wind from all that CFM pushing exhaust out.

[Mikestang]

this output could be used to change water into steam

Water boils at 100*C, steam to power a turbine needs to be much, much hotter.  If you have a miner running over 100*C then you've got serious problems!

Nothing productive can be done with mildly warm air.

[MCHouston]

I wish I could make high pressure steam with miners.  I would love to do this.

How are you concentrating the heat of the miners?  Exhaust of my miners is only around 130-140F at Max not even close to producing steam let alone in volume or high pressure.

[philipma1957]

this output could be used to change water into steam

Water boils at 100*C, steam to power a turbine needs to be much, much hotter.  If you have a miner running over 100*C then you've got serious problems!

Nothing productive can be done with mildly warm air.

You could heat a large indoor swimming pool. 

A school could do a project  with wind power, solar power and asics mining and heat the school pool.   

Most likely it works in places that have the right conditions.

[notlist3d]

this output could be used to change water into steam

Water boils at 100*C, steam to power a turbine needs to be much, much hotter.  If you have a miner running over 100*C then you've got serious problems!

Nothing productive can be done with mildly warm air.

You could heat a large indoor swimming pool. 

A school could do a project  with wind power, solar power and asics mining and heat the school pool.   

Most likely it works in places that have the right conditions.

That would be the mine all workers want to work at if they have a swimming pool .  Would be interesting to see a mine add extras for their workers.

Most it seems do not do a ton or the employees it seems in big mines.   With cost as a factor I don't seriously see them using it unless they make money off of it.

[sidehack]

We've talked about setting up a greenhouse off the hosting exhaust. Put the right critters in the water and you got your own ecosystem.

What about using a tall pipe to draft some of your exhaust air and use the convection suction to run a low-speed turbine? Or there are external-combustion engines that can produce high-speed low-torque off pretty small heat differentials, which could be used to spin a generator.