-
@ Kevin's Bacon
2025-02-21 23:00:09
nostr:nevent1qqswmmtsqnd3cuad7jz6fdttp80hknqxd2a4635waaeuusjalsyw8rqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyq7a53gq3gper4un8cdw0npms39lmywf9h006r64ee406qjhwmedkqcyqqqqqqgnxvx3g
I might have to start using Calories or kilojoules as a secondary unit of account. I wonder what the market conversion rate is, hmmmmm...
In Texas typical power costs for hosted miners are like 7¢ per kilowatt hour which is like 0.02 sats per kilojoule if I did my math right, and I have no idea. So per day I'm taking energy from my fat and consuming about 4.184 * have kilojoules * 0.02 sats per kilojoule = about 184 sats worth of energy going by the market rate of cheap electricity.
What if there is some way to use human energy expenditures from, say, operating a stair climber, to power a bitcoin miner for a cheaper cost per unit of energy inputs than the typical market rates of electricity? Looking at the price of quality bean burrito ingredients, it looks like best case I could get a cost of like 1 sat per kilojoule for energy inputs for the human to expend on the stairstepper... nope that's not competitive unless the human was going to exercise anyway, and, after efficiency losses in getting these inputs, in the machine, in the storage of energy, and in the power supply to the miner, we have maybe an effective cost of 2 to 4 sats per kilojoule.
STILL!! This figure from 1 to 4 sats per kilojoule is the market rate of human energy inputs and outputs, which is awesome to use for accounting for the sake of things like food expenses and human powered machines.