quoting note1uaa…9ztcThis is the Revolution from ElectroMotion Energy. It has a propane, natural gas or diesel powered generator, an internal battery and charging circuit, a large thermal battery, and a sealed water tank. It connects to your home’s main electrical panel and your site’s water supply and internal hot water plumbing.
During peak electrical demand times on the grid, or during a power outage, a timer or the transfer switch starts the generator and begins generating electricity.
The heat from the generator is harvested to charge the heat storage medium in the thermal battery, heating the water in the water tank and making it available during the hours of peak demand for hot water, which also corresponds to the hours of peak electrical demand in the home.
Deployed at a ratio of 1 in 3 homes, this unit generates enough electricity to basically flatline the demand spike in a residential neighborhood during peak demand, massively reducing buildout costs for the local utility.
In a single home situation, the unit outputs enough electricity to effectively turn your meter backwards during peak demand times, further augmenting grid capacity and lowering the user’s power bill.
Since neighborhoods’ natural gas service (or an onsite propane or diesel tank) is way less prone to interruption than the electrical grid, this technology is particularly useful in parts of the country that experience sub freezing temperatures.
I did some fundraising and early prototype building assistance for my friend who started this business.
When we were testing early prototypes, the power would go out in the neighbourhood fairly frequently because of the frailty of the local grid during storms and peak demand times. My buddy’s house would be the only one on the block with the lights on. And the server racks for his web hosting business wouldn’t miss a beat.
Since my buddy knows I am into Bitcoin, I have been asked recently to do a feasibility study on integrating asic miners into the design to augment the heat generation and further offset the energy cost for the sites it is deployed at using subsidies from hashing.
Another thing I think is interesting is that in a distributed interconnected model, a thousand of these units could have a pretty big effect on mining decentralization and network support for the blockchain.
I have been running Bitcoin and messing with Lightning for a handful of years, but I am just short of getting my feet wet on mining. I know the basic software and the mechanics of connecting to pools vs solo, I just haven’t bought the hardware yet. I’m dying to get a little rig setup going. Maybe Santa will bring me a BitAxe this year lol.
If anyone with some mining and electrical engineering experience reads this and has some thoughts, I would love to connect. I’m a little out of my depth on the mining side of things and analyzing the economics of power and hardware costs versus mining income, but I feel like there is a good fit between this technology and Bitcoin mining. It’s all about the heat.
I’m thinking about the impact to the economic model of the unit by immersion harvesting the heat from a couple last gen cheap S19’s in particular.
PS this picture is an older prototype. The first residential install we ever did. The unit is now egg shaped and the backlit logo inset is blue. I’d like to turn it orange for a few hours each day : )
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