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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Has any one done solar or wind power crunching ???
Weak minds wanna know |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What do you mean? Solar powered crunching -> using solar power to produce electricity & crunch?!
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SNURK
Veteran Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Nov 26, 2007 Post Count: 1217 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Have a look at this thread for inspiration:
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Using solar and/or wind to power your crunchers...
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm fairly sure Hypernova's solar power system also gave power to the crunchers he had...
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Using solar and/or wind to power your crunchers... 1% of my country electricity comes from wind power...so yes, I've done it in 1% volume!  though, I'm thinking about running R Pi0 on solar power?!  |
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MrHasselblad
Cruncher Joined: Dec 20, 2014 Post Count: 42 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have three thousand watts worth of solar and battery power.
Even with the winter months in the northern hemisphere, the still limited daylight is able to keep the batteries completely charged. Also consider that my area is SW Pennsylvania, an area not exactly known for being the ideal sunlight conditions. Yet even during fully clouded skies, even during rain, etc... The system still functions perfectly. The solar/battery set-up powers three low power computers/tablets - able to run indefinitely. Yet that is not the main function of the set-up. It's primary initial function is to power a 1500w (although typically not tasked out as such) computer server that mines BitCoin. Given the configuration and recent rates - I've never earned less than one thousand per month. Unfortunately those numbers would lose half value if the system was needing to be plugged in. |
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Former Member
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Sort of, we have a 21m high Gaia wind turbine throwing out about 40,000Kw/h a year that we offset against our business/domestic usage so I guess that covers the 6 machines that crunch that are in virtual 24/7 usage.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3315 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Nice MrHasselblad and Paul D ;)
----------------------------------------Lol Klik, then I guess my crunchers were 95% clean energy powered in February of 2016 haha - AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W - AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W - AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Nice MrHasselblad and Paul D ;) Lol Klik, then I guess my crunchers were 95% clean energy powered in February of 2016 haha well, my average also comes to almost 30% of renewable sources over a year...mostly from water!  but, wasting $50 on solar powered R Pi0...why?! for that I get 1750kWh of electricity in my country...for that I can power R Pi0 for 6m! |
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