This company is doing something similar to flare gas mining, but their stranded energy is the sunlight hitting your roof.
From Troy Cross's thread:
If you have a qualifying home in CA, @anadroenergy will install a solar system for you, complete with backup batteries, as well as bitcoin miners, for free. You pay nothing for this.But you do pay them for the electricity you use that's generated by your own roof. They charge you the lowest utility electrical rate.You also receive 80% of the bitcoin mined by the machines at your home with your own power. They take the other 20% of the bitcoin.
So they are functioning mostly like a utility company, but:
- using your real estate
- hedging their installation with bitcoin mining
I'd guess you're also paying them for the electricity that's used to generate your bitcoin, including the 20% of the bitcoin you're paying them (which I find confusing frankly).
It sounds amazing. I'd be really curious how the economics of all of this breaks down. It's the only thing left to be skeptical about.