Microsoft Research discovers what all DC'ers already know...

oh, that is precious

now, what to do with the waste heat in summer?
 
Heat your water? Just a thought, would be possible with a heatpump system that dumps heat into the water and when the specified temperature is reached it would automatically dump the heat elsewhere.
 
jojo69 said:
oh, that is precious

now, what to do with the waste heat in summer?
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They're 20 miles away from me in Redmond and we apparently don't get summer so I can understand their oversight...
 
Yeah...I'm in the sound too, been a tough summer to garden wtf?
 
Untitled: :eek: How many computers would you need to make a pipeline of water too hot?
 
Good question, I dont have the numbers off the top of my head. However water does absorb a lot of heat. Some of these folders may have enough though... Then again if we are talking 24/7 useage, I think a decent sized farm could do it well.
 
A very large air conditioner I used to cool the entire home dumps into my study window, so I use my folding rigs to warm my fingers and toes when it is ice cold in here.
 
I'm partway there on the waste heat for hot water. I have a heat pump that only dumps waste heat in the summer, but the line runs right under my office. I'm going to tap into that line with a water-water heat exchanger and a watercooled mining or folding rig. I've installed a tankless water heater in line after my tank and ct the power to the tank heater, using it as a pre-heat tank.
 
So they recommend moving the cloud computing into the buildings its users occupy. Doesn't that negate one of the big advantages to cloud computing? (consolidating computing power using economy of scale).
 
I just thought of something, electricity actually converts 100% efficiently as heat. So if you were to build a 100% efficient sterling engine genset, you could use the heat from the servers to power the servers. You would just need to use mains power as a kick start.

I'm on to something here. :D
 
Alas, too many energy conversions. You also need to convert the kinetic energy from the sterling to electricity of the correct voltage. Now if you supplemented the inefficiencies of the energy conversions with treadmill or stationary bike energy and captured the body heat from those activities as well, you could effectively fuel your servers with beer and tamales!
 
Hmm, not a bad idea, add an exercise bike.

"Come on keep peddling, this -bigadv only has 33 hours left!" :D
 
What are Data Fu-rances? (2nd word, 2nd sentence)

With spelling like that, it's no wonder Windows crashes so often. :mad:
 
7im said:
What are Data Fu-rances? (2nd word, 2nd sentence)

With spelling like that, it's no wonder Windows crashes so often. :mad:
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I dunno as i've never had problems with Windows ever since I started folding on Windows 7. Even Vista was stable although I hated it because it was such a pig. Just for pure ease of use, I honestly think I will prefer Windows to Linux even if my tpf's do take a small hit.
 
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