Intelligent people of Nostr, I have a question:
Is it possible to create a mining pool for all Tesla owners, so they mine bitcoin while charging (or even driving) their Tesla?
Even if possible, I know this would obviously not yield any significant amount of bitcoin
But could it provide a subsidy on electricity costs for charging?
Thanks!
I know nothing about how bitcoin mining works on a technical/computational power level, other than you need strong computers!
Energy used for mining is USED, mine at home and charge your Tesla separately. Tesla doesn’t have strong computer neither.
Conservation of energy, a fundamental law of physics and chemistry stating that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes. 🐶🐾🫡
I cheated my way through high school physics
Can I get the magic school bus explanation?
In short, you can’t have a cake and eat it. If you use energy to charge your vehicle, it is used to charge your vehicle (minus conversion and inefficiency losses). If you use energy to mine a bitcoin, it is used and gone (mainly lost to a heat of processor inefficiencies). 1+1=2 and nothing extra to use to mine. 🐶🐾🫡
Thank you!
So those gimmicky bitcoin mining “space heaters” literally are just shitty bitcoin miners with fans to expel the heat they produce?
Pretty much. They still mine, and use expelled heat to warm-up the room.
Processors use transistors. Transistors use electrical charge to turn on/off the gate. When it is used, it is charged/discharged. There is always some resistance that will be there, and that will always translate into heat. Usually the hotter the conductor gets, the more resistance it has. So taking that heat away and into the air, heats up your room. I can’t tell how good or bad these miners are, but probably not the best! 🐶🐾🫡
