Even without a solar and battery backup system installed, a small-scale miner could use dynamic power scaling to scale back mining during peak events, and scale up mining during off-peak events. This could be accomplished through the use of micro controllers and home automation controllers subscribing to live power grid events, which then in turn increase or decrease miner hash rate accordingly.
Heating Your Home With Bitcoin Miners
The cost savings of this technique become even more apparent when coupled with the second key advantage that home miners can use: mining for heat.
All devices that consume electricity put out 100% of that energy in the form of heat, along with their primary purposes (producing light, hashing, etc). A 3,400-watt Bitcoin miner essentially puts out the equivalent wattage in the form of heat. With some innovation and engineering, this heat can be redirected and integrated into heating homes, pools, water heaters, green houses and more.
