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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM[<div class="post">The power used is not wasteful.&nbsp; It is simply what the owner is willing to commit to the project.&nbsp; Even so, it may be used even as "waste heat".&nbsp; I am an electritian by trade, and years ago I had the following idea form, while installing a 'heat trace' network on insulated sprinkler lines inside an open air parking garage.<br/><br/>The 'heat trace' is a fairly expensive cable that has a continuous resistive core to produce low intensity electric heat along the length of the pipe that it's taped onto.&nbsp; Insulation is then wrapped around this assembly.&nbsp; The best, and most efficient, systems have a temp reactive core; so that the closer to the freezing point that the cable itself becomes at any given length, the lower the resistance across the core becomes, resulting in an increase in heat output along the colder and less well insulated sections.&nbsp; <br/><br/>At the time, I was playing with an early form of distributed computing called "Condor", which allowed single processes to be exported to other computers upon a network and their disk I/O shipped back across the network to a master server without the process being able to tell the difference.&nbsp; I thought then that a small "computer on a chip" wired upon a flat network cable would be able to effectively perform the same functions of keeping the pipes above freezing with local temp sensitivity while also crunching numbers in exactly the same way that bitcoin requires.&nbsp; Such an idea would require a network that permited quite a bit of power in order to not need an unacceptable number of power points along the pipe, but imagine the usefulness of such a system for companies that have such needs in very high (or very low) latitudes.<br/><br/>What if such a system were retrofitted onto the Alaskan Oil Pipeline, for example, one mile at a time?<br/></div> text/html