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If you are going to use electricity to heat human occupied spaces, you should use a heatpump which has much better efficiency, above 100%.
by speedgoose 6y ago
If you are going to use electricity to heat human occupied spaces, you should use a heatpump which has much better efficiency, above 100%.
- scotty79 6y agoSure, that's not optimal way of heating with electricity. That's just a way of utilizing heat from computing.
- imtringued 6y agoCooling technologies just move the heat around. A datacenter produces a lot of heat that is then subsequently moved out of the building. Capturing that heat shouldn't be too difficult because it passes through central AC or central chillers.
- noxer 6y agoCapturing as in storing? Simply knowing where the heat is/goes doesn't really make it easy usable. You can heat up water for example but what if no one need warm water there? Also often additional energy is useless just to move the heat away fast enough.
- dukeyukey 6y agoBut if you're using electricity to power CPUs, may as well pump that heat into human-inhabited areas to keep us toasty warm.