How easy it would it be to hook up a miner to a generator that is being feed by a natural gas well? Been looking at properties in West Virginia that have free gas and thought I could use the free gas/generator to mine #BTC and for the rig to heat a greenhouse.

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As long as the "free" is real and unlimited and you scale that power potential to your generator and plan your to your set up around that its literally as easy as plugging in a miner anywhere.

Only difference is maintenance costs of your generator set up & maintenance.

i hope im not speaking out of turn or for someone else, but nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z is doing some interesting things on his homestead, btc mining food dehydrator, a heater, etc. check his notes here. he doesn't talk specifics, but he may point you in a direction.

My initial thoughts/concerns would be, the generator would ideally be running 24/7 so I assume your average emergency style backup generator wouldn’t be ideal for that. Second would be power requirements. Most modern ASIC miners are using around 3000-3400kwh so I’d look at the type of generator again so that it checks both of those boxes. Noise concern. Again generator running around the clock. Possible to make a sound reducing enclosure of some sort. As far as heating that should be pretty straightforward. They put out significant heat. I would just be sure to make sure it’s protected for water and other elements being in a greenhouse. If you move forward with this I’d be interested to see some updates.

Are you planning on living on the property?

Thank you. We would be living in the property. We are talking about a piece of land in the 50-125 acre range. We will have the ability to build any sort of enclosure (we own a machine shop). What we lack ID the technical knowledge of mining etc. If it's "easily" doable than it's something I want to incorporate into our plans.

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Have you read through these guys?

That should work. Setting up the miner is pretty straightforward.