One of these days I'm gonna pipe these bad boys into my homes duct work LMAO

[bronzebeard@lemm.ee]

Not sure who's down voting you. You're right. There's Heat pumps that can move 5x more heat than the energy they use. While a PC only gives you max 1:1

[kungen@feddit.nu]

So it sends data to/from a remote place? A place that's probably far away, kinda like those fluffy-looking things in the sky? May I suggest that you name your idea "cloud computing"?

[hardcoreufo@lemmy.world]

That's why I like my mini PC with a laptop GPU. Its not the most powerful, but it can play most stuff at 1080p Very High settings and get 60 FPS all while using 300ish watts. Good enough for me. I really don't want to deal with noise, size and power consumption of a kitted out gaming rig anymore.

[stevedice@sh.itjust.works]

I have actually gotten up to run benchmarks on my PC on particularly cold nights.

[cort@lemmy.world]

Maybe a failure at a commercial level, but people tech nerds are still heating their homes in the winter with crypto miners

[cort@lemmy.world]

Put a 4090 in there and pump those numbers up!

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

That's the dream right there.

[lengau@midwest.social]

This is true, but it's shocking how few people have heat pumps, especially in colder climates.

Still, it's also far less efficient than using a gas furnace (to the point that most people would actually burn more fossil fuels per Joule of heat from a resistive heater than from just burning the gas directly in a furnace).

Of course, if you're doing something useful with that energy, using the waste heat is an extra benefit. Like using waste heat from a power plant for district heating.

[etterra@discuss.online]

Is there any way to store surplus waste heat for redistribution months later? The only thing I can think of is just a really large, high heat capacity mass surrounded by incredible insulation material, with a heat pump system built in to it. Which would be incredibly impractical.

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/15/1091042/thermal-batteries-heat-energy-storage/

[pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de]

Thank you, this thought had occurred to me recently, and I was wondering if it was accurate.

[windex007@lemmy.world]

I interpreted the sentiment from OP that it was just reframing the reality in either case: the server is going to run, and it's going to generate heat.

You can either frame that reality as "waste heat is being generated" or "my furnace doesn't have to work as hard"

[ch00f@lemmy.world]

Back in high school, my buddy used to VNC into his Athlon 3200+ WinXP machine from school and start SuperPi calculating a million digits. Took 40minutes and got his room proper toasty by time he got home.

[kn33@lemmy.world]

Shit with my gf and I both gaming, sometimes we have to open a window in the winter

[kn33@lemmy.world]

I'm just kinda hunkering down with carts and waiting for MN to get dispensaries cause I'm lazy.

[bakkoda@sh.itjust.works]

I was given some white widow clones and unfortunately could only keep them outdoors most of the time. Meant some generally early harvesting. I'm ready this year lol

[mnbychoice@midwest.social]

People used to mine Bitcointhis was. Only in winter.

[turmacar@lemmy.world]

You just described a water heater.

One that would store heat at super high pressures of steam granted.

[mudman@fedia.io]

This conversation is two steps away from rediscovering the concept of consoles and I'm here for it.

[nopper@lemmy.world]

You haven't heard my PS4 take off like a jet liner on any menu screen.