Bitcoin miner as water heating element

[Axtremus]

Simple idea: bitcoin mining generates lots of heat, might as well use it to heat your water ️ repackage bitcoin mining hardware into heating element that fits in the otherwise typical electrical hot water heater/tank.

https://heatbit.com/

Can probably do the same for AI or anything that is compute-intensive.

[Daniel]

That's fine.

But what about the other things generated?

I believe these things might include toxic waste water, toxic air, and noise pollution.

I was thinking as a person does about all of those 5 acres rural land plots for 50k for sale in my state and many others.

I was thinking how could you know it wouldn't be next to such a facility either now or in the immediate future?

[Axtremus]

@Daniel said:

That's fine.

But what about the other things generated?

I believe these things might include toxic waste water, toxic air, and noise pollution.

The thing I linked to would simply replace the heating coil in otherwise typical water heating tanks. No reason to expect "toxic waste water, toxic air, and noise pollution."

The concept is quite simple: bitcoin mining generates heat (do it in server farms and you have to find ways to dissipate all that heat), you also need heat to heat your water. So just do the bitcoin mining in your hot water tank so the heat generated from bitcoin mining is used to heat your water (as oppose to dissipated into the environment as done by most server farms today).