AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility

Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by nwh on Monday November 25, 2013 @02:45PM (#6796419)

To do that the chip would have to be designed to have that feature already. Otherwise it's like looking at a bicycle and wishing you could repurpose it into being a plane. The structure is just not there to do that sort of modification.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by dllthomas on Monday November 25, 2013 @03:23PM (#6796689)

Hopefully they can recycle the raw materials, and can build upon the designs.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by nwh on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:11PM (#6797043)

Eh, not really. I don't think any form of electronics is recyclable, best you probably get is third world countries burning the boards to get the gold out and killing themselves with the gases produced.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by dllthomas on Monday November 25, 2013 @04:18PM (#6797105)

I said (and stressed) "hopefully" - I understand it's not mostly the case presently.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by jjoonathan on Monday November 25, 2013 @05:35PM (#6797580)

The raw material is worthless. It's the processing that is expensive.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by SolarNet on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @05:47AM (#6800366)

Well some of it can be recycled, like rare metals, but you are right that the majority of the value is in the combination of those raw materials, rather than the materials themselves.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by dllthomas on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @09:36AM (#6801450)

And of course as technology advances, both actual composition and what can and cannot be usefully recycled will change.

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