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

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Put a 4090 in there and pump those numbers up!

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That's the dream right there.

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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.

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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.

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

pruwyben

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

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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"

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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.

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

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

Bakkoda

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

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People used to mine Bitcointhis was. Only in winter.

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You just described a water heater.

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

MudMan

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

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

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I saw an interesting post that said

All electronics are 100% efficient in the winter

A Basil Plant

Huh, I hadn't heard about this idea and a quick search on DDG returned this link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/

Interesting!

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Look into geothermal heat pumps. During the summer they pump heat from your house underground, and during the winter they pump it back in.

But the energy doesn't really stay there. The thermal mass and temperature of the ground just means that you can always efficiently take heat from it or effectively dump heat into it. Always predictably the same efficiency.
If the heat was actually stored, the start of summer and winner the pump would be super efficient, but by the end it'd be inefficient working hard to move the heat. So it seems kinda wasteful that the energy isn't being stored, but it's actually kinda better that it isn't.

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Now that we have reverse cycle AC (heat pumps), 100% is a low bar.

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I know, but I didn't wanna pollute my comment with a bunch of pedantry, despite my name. Also people living in apartments often don't have access to heat pumps.