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You could, you know, use the heat of the nuclear power plant directly instead.
by jijijijij 3y ago
You could, you know, use the heat of the nuclear power plant directly instead.
- lm28469 3y agoThen you lose the part where you get free computational power
- alberto180 3y agoYou know what these huge towers with white smoke at nuclear plants do?
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- lm28469 3y agoYes they waste heat by releasing it in the atmosphere as water vapor. They neither power computers nor heats home
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- kalleboo 3y agoNuclear plants only have about a 15 degree C temperature gradient in their cooling water in winter, the waste heat is not very useful. Swedish power companies have extensively researched using their nuke plants for district heating since they were planning the plants originally in the 60's, but it's never penciled out. Meanwhile you can run a CPU up to 95 C.
- jijijijij 3y agoWho is talking about waste heat? If you want to heat homes you could just use the thermal energy produced directly at a much higher efficiency. You don't need the detour of electricity generation at all. See, my point isn't really that you should do that, but the fallacy in thinking there is a "free" energy hack for crypto, AI, ... . Wasting electrical energy is always bad.