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Hear me out:

ASIC set up that can produce enough heat to generate steam.

Steam flows to a turbine, turbine powers generator, generator powers ASICs.

I know this isn’t possible with current tech but imagine a fully self sustaining mining rig. 0 cost mining.
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Dan Wedge 2y ago

You’re breaking laws of thermodynamics

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やトナ 2y ago

Laws are meant to be broken!

In all seriousness though, how so? I figured it was impossible but I don’t understand thermodynamics enough to get it.

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nobody 2y ago

There's no such thing as a 100% energy transfer. Heating water will lose some heat to the environment. Steam will dissipate before converting to useful mechanical energy. Friction in your generator will sap energy from the system. The generator will lose some electric energy to heat which dissipates in the environment. And on and on and on.

But those are concrete reasons. Generally the second law of thermodynamics says that entropy in a closed system always trends towards a maximum. i.e. there's no free lunch.

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nobody 2y ago

Efficient*