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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  1mo ago (text post)   492 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for October 29, 2024

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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Progress continues slowly on the mining project. I feel like most everything is ready, but the 'finishing touches' are frustrating. Distributors change prices and delivery timelines. Investors want to haggle over contract details.

On the bright side, finding a place seems to be going well. I've found half a dozen possibilities, though I won't be going into specifics for OPSEC reasons. Suffice to say that each one has over 100kW of power, and they nearly all are under $1000/month for leasing. One in particular has more than a megawatt available and is still under $1k a month.

Posted a comment in the old thread, replying to @waffles and giving a drawn depiction of how the heat exchanger system is designed.

I understand your design now, after you posted your drawing. And it also makes sense that the cooling/utilities system is going to be a small part of the overall project, so no need to waste time scrutinizing that part.

Have you considered what happens if there's a leak of coolant into the dielectric fluid? Or do you expect the piping to outlast the life of the installation?

Thank you! Good to hear I’m not off my rocker.

I have not considered the possibility of a coolant leak… It’s a good question. The idea was to bend the copper pipe such that the pipe in the coolant tank was one piece, with the connections being the only part that could leak, but you bring up a good question.

With that said, things are (hopefully temporarily) on pause. The Russian government’s new mining law came into effect on the first of November (yay, since that’s what legalizes this project) and they announced some upcoming mining location bans.

Boo, since they were not specific about exactly where mining would be banned. Right now I think we would be in the clear, but it doesn’t make sense to move forward until I’m certain. I don’t love sitting on my hands here.

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