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Immersion mining with canola oil to concentrate maple sap more quickly

https://v.nostr.build/n997.mp4

I'm using a single S9 hash board immersed in canola oil to heat maple sap to increase the effectiveness of the reverse osmosis sap concentration system.

The weather conditions this season have caused the maple sap to be cold and stay cold which drastically slows down the ability of the RO system to filter water out of it. I ran into a bottle neck where there is more sap than I can keep up with concentrating so I needed to come up with something quickly!

Ideally if the temperature of the sap is 77°f the filter will operate most effectively without damaging the RO membrane. Of course, my mind immediately turned to Bitcoin mining for the heating solution. What I came up with was an immersion system using the homebrew equipment I already had to heat the sap just before it entered the RO. This would allow the majority of the sap to stay cool keeping it from spoiling and still remove the most water possible.

The only thing I didn't have for the immersion system was the dielectric fluid. I had no idea where to find the proper fluid nor did it make sense to pay the high cost for it. The application for this system is very specific and I will only need it until April. I had been joking about using canola oil as dielectric fluid for almost a year but for this situation it seemed like the perfect fit. Canola oil is 70% cheaper than bitcool before shipping and was immediately available!

Amazingly, I put everything together and it worked very well without major adjustments. I tip-toed the voltage and frequency of the single S9 hashboard up slowly to find the right balance in temperatures between the two fluid loops. Ultimately, I ended up with an overclocked board drawing over 600w! By the time I got the system setup and dialed in I was already half way through concentrating this collection of sap. The next collection will offer more concrete data on what this system is capable of. For now, even with the worst S9 board I have, I'm getting a 15% rebate on the total power usage of the whole process and it's definitely concentrating sap more quickly. All for ~$10 of canola oil... 👀

#homesteading #permaculture #permies #plebminer #meshtadel #grownostr #immersionmining #seedoil #homemining #homeminer #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #maplesyrup #maplesugaring #reverseosmosis

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rev.hodl 1y ago

Amazing results from DIY Bitcoin mining maple sap reverse osmosis system.

This reverse osmosis maple sap concentration system utilizes an immersion Bitcoin mining heating loop to improve the efficiency of the system by heating the maple sap before it passed through a reverse osmosis filter. The immersion mining system uses canola oil as the dielectric fluid!

https://v.nostr.build/zZl0.mp4

https://v.nostr.build/A45L.mp4

Now that I've had a chance to run several hundred gallons of sap through the system I've have everything pretty dialed in. Depending on the ambient temperature and sap temperature the system is able to concentrate the sap 30-50% faster than before without the immersion mining heating loop. Additionally, the sap is getting concentrated to 7 brix in one pass vs 6 brix which means removing even more water before boiling than before.

The canola oil immersion mining heating loop is providing a 25% rebate on the power usage of the total system after upgrading the vanilla s9 hashboard to an s9j hashboard. So, the system process the sap faster saving time, removes more water saving propane/fuel and boiling time, and it pays a Bitcoin rebate on the power usage. By adding the immersion mining heating loop I've massively expanded the capacity of my existing maple sugaring equipment.

Because the mining system is temporary and I didn't have access to Bitcool or something similar for the dielectric fluid, the canola oil was a cheap readily available alternative. It has been working well with no noticable degradation.

There are some downsides to the system. First I lost a control board because I splashed sap on it. Then I lost two batches of concentrated sap. The heater gets the sap warm promoting the fermentation process, so I wasn't able to start boiling the sap quickly enough in the warmer weather. The bottleneck of the process is definitely at the boiling stage now.

This system can be built for less than $700 and is more efficient than similar systems costing over $2500... Necessity is the mother of invention as they say.

#homesteading #permaculture #permies #maplesyrup #maplesugaring #meshtadel #grownostr #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #homemining #plebminer

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The Beave 1y ago

This is so dang cool! (or hot!)

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phenixfalconer 1y ago

Madman pushing the limits. Never stop!

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₿ountiful 1y ago

Why do you need to RO filter the sap?

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rev.hodl 1y ago

The ro removes 60-70 percent of the water from the sap reducing the about of time and energy it takes to make the sap into syrup.

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The Beave 1y ago

My dude... You've helped inspire a really friggin brilliant idea for heating my home... I may need to bend your ear at some point about your setup, because, Holy crap! I'm excited!

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Lighthouse 1y ago

Can you make a breakdown video of the system so people can replicate it?

For #zaps of course

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Kontext 1y ago

BASED

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rev.hodl 1y ago

Welcome to the frontier, where plebs are producing their own food, using Bitcoin miners to do it all while disrespecting seed oils.

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John 1y ago

Canola oil holy shit

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rev.hodl 1y ago

Hashing the Torch, my first Bitcoin miner passed on to a fellow pleb

A friend was interested in learning about mining so gave him an S9 to experiment with.

Before I could give it to him, I had to clean the canola oil off the hashboard I was using in the immersion maple sap heater. I gave the board a bath in very soapy water and used a spray bottle to get the oil out from in and around all the heat sinks. Then dried very thoroughly with a hair dryer. Ironically, because the board was so clean, it was staying a few degrees cooler than the other hashboards when I was tuning the miner up before handing it off.

The improved performance of the S9 from the cleaning, got me thinking I should clean the miner I use for my clothes dryer. When I opened it up I was shocked that it was hashing at all... It was almost totally clogged with dryer lint. After cleaning it out the fans were running at much lower speeds significantly reducing the noise. We must have gotten used to it as it slowly got louder and louder. For as much as Canaan miners get hated on, this machine has proven to be very tough, hashing in a very dirty high heat environment with reduced airflow.

#bitcoin #bitcoinmining #plebminer #hashthetorch #meshtadel

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Aeontropy 1y ago

If I build something like this in somewhere in the states of Mexico, the probability that a wrongfully military intervention happen is high. Why? has the looks of narcotics laboratories KEK.

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Séimí Mac Síomón 1y ago

You are an impressive man.

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Keith 1y ago

How much power does that miner use? I might be able to set you up with a solar panel/inverter charger/battery that could power that set up in exchange for helping me get my first miner set up. Reach out to me if you want to talk about it more.

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rev.hodl 1y ago

Happy to help!

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vinney...axkl 1y ago

So, alchemy?

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rev.hodl 1y ago

Using canola oil to mine Bitcoin and make maple syrup.

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rev.hodl 7mo ago

Bitcoin mining maple sap heater, a two loop immersion mining system with canola oil as the dielectric fluid running 110v power with a modified power supply!

https://v.nostr.build/h0fB1djEHDys8eC3.mp4

This sap heater is an improved iteration on the proof of concept system from last season. It's getting 3x the hashrate with the same power consumption in a much more compact design saving tons of space. Huge improvement!

Now that the sugaring season is over, I've repurposed this mobile immersion unit to aid in growing the cannabis starts this spring. I have future plans to integrate it into my solar power system this summer for some more wacky experimental use cases. More to come on this mining contraption!

#permaculture #homesteading #permies #meshtadel #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #seedoil #plebminer #doublespendenergy

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