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Waste heat from computers to warm buildings
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- Retric 17y agoThis was not uncommon in with mainframes. However as systems became more efficient a supplemental power source was often needed. The problem is buildings often outlast what they are used for over which is why they are often fairly generic. Who knows what computing will be like in 80 years or how long that place will even house computers.
- billpg 17y agoNever mind using the waste heat to warm buildings. Let's use the waste heat to power the air conditioning.
- gibsonf1 17y agoHmm, that could probably only work if you had enough heat to make steam to turn a turbine to power a compressor at which point you wouldn't harvest much cooling I would guess. Changing state from hot to steam takes a lot of energy.