Is mining energy-consuming and environmentally unfriendly? Using mining machines to dissipate heat to heat your bath water may be a good idea

As the application of blockchain becomes more and more popular in people's lives, a big shot in the cryptocurrency industry, Lee, came up with an idea to use mining to dissipate heat and boil bath water.

Lee once used mining equipment to heat up cool bath water after a storm.

On May 15, a big shot named "Lee" published an article on a Bitcoin website, introducing a system that uses ASICs to heat water. In this way, miners have another way to make money. He wrote on the social news station Reddit: Everyone, imagine that through this technology, after using mining heat to heat water, people can have a more comfortable, comfortable and free sauna; there is also another way to provide heating for the family; in addition, when the hair is wet, people can use this technology to blow dry their hair. (In this way, will hair dryers have a sense of crisis?)

Lee, who works in Alabama, said he had invested in cryptocurrencies and had a company that could increase profits by producing chips specifically for cryptocurrency mining, called application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs.

Lee, who has a digital wallet filled with money earned through his efforts, has now decided to invest again in the amazing technology of ASICs. "After realizing how much waste heat is generated from using this equipment, I decided to recycle it in an efficient way," he said. The system Lee built in January is simple. It uses a water-to-air converter, like the ones you find in supercharged cars. Lee said it works well.

Lee wrote: "If I leave it running all day, it will generate temperatures as high as 122F/50C. The left side is Fahrenheit (122) and the right side is Celsius (50). If it is too hot, if someone has pets at home, then these small animals may be in danger when they sneak into the toilet." He added: "I did this experiment to make sure it is safe to do so. After all, safety is the top priority." FX678 reported that Lee said that his practice has earned him a 10% profit. He also said that in the future, his profits will be greater than now. Lee said: "This is very interesting, and I have been exploring new applications for blockchain."

In this regard, the editor of Huitong.com couldn't help but sigh: "The idea of ​​using mining heat to heat bath water and making money through this idea is indeed a great example of a brain hole and making a lot of money." In particular, considering that virtual currency "mining" has consumed nearly 0.5% of the world's electricity, and the high energy consumption has been criticized by environmentalists, collecting and utilizing the huge heat released by the mining machine when it is working can also make the virtual currency industry look more or less "green".