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... If you're at home with your car. Otherwise easy 24kW of Bitcoin mining.
For one hour.
Up to 3 hours, would need an ~8kW mining rig to fully utilize, which is gonna be beefy.
24 kW for one hour is 24 kilowatt-hours, which is the limit. "beeng" above specified "24kW of Bitcoin mining".
Sorry, missed they dropped the h. My guess is typo, even a 8kW mining rig would look pretty comical in a home, 24 kW is just silly (and would require multiple dedicated circuits in a home?). And if you can only run it for even 3h/day, it'll probably take aeons to pay for itself.
Maybe worth spinning up your otherwise idle 1kW-ish computer or underutilized home server to do some free mining, but I wouldn't invest a ton of money in something that'll be dormant for 21h/day.