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The idea is to have a water cooled server farm (yes this is expensive and potentially hazardous to a mainframe's health) and have it exchange heat with a large water reservoir for a laundromat.
The laundromat could use the excess heat to preheat water for washing machines.
The water reservoir
could also have a heat sink attached to some part of it to preheat the air that goes into the dryers as well.
Keep that laundromat open 24/7 and get PAID to cool your server farm.
http://www.248am.co...the-google-laundry/
Disclaimer: I have no idea what this is. [jutta, Dec 23 2009]
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Sounds like a good one - after all if Cray can use water cooling, why can't everyone else!! |
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A great idea for minimising carbon emissions, and how about using the exhaust heat (from the Computer Facility AC System) to preheat also? Seems like an opportunity to use an ammonia - cycle heat pump here! |
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Definitely worth my bunny vote! |
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Take it a step further and run it to the car wash next door, then grow flowers. |
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I've always wanted a popcorn machine blade with my
local blade server - you set the server to model the
weather, or re-render an open-source computer
animated film, and wait for tasty algorithmic-
enriched popcorn to be popped by the waste heat! |
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You could use the water to heat a swimming pool too, and show advertisements in the swimming pool. (+ for high level of automation, though [jutta] had found something interesting) |
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Desalination...the (laundry) list is endless. This idea is so good that every other idiot that thinks of it is going to be {mf-d} redundant. It might become the new "Gym Power" of the help file. Well done [wuss] have a bun... |
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[wuss] speaking of gym power, haven't I seen you before? |
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Data centers like electronics stores are turning into giant brand named warehouses like google, rackspace, colo4 etc for economies of sale. Due to security and power concerns they cannot e located residential areas so any small exchange is out. Converting that heat into power for some sort of bio fuel generation makes more sense. |
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It depends how much heat is produced. A small steam turbine power plant comes to mind... |
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//power concerns they cannot e located residential areas//
There's a data center about half a mile from my development. There's a development directly behind it with a view of the building too. |
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