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>using electricity for heating

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>>875870

I've heard there's some city in Finland that uses datacenter cooling system to heat up tap water and for central heating.

>inb4 build shitcoin mining facilities in polar belt region

My university is heated partially by a nearby data center.

>>875867 (OP)

if you're not shitposting, it's not more efficient because it's bad at making heat in comparison to a coil that is specialized in heating. That said you're doing a useful task with a heat byproduct

>>875916

>it's bad at making heat

how so, if it converts almost 100% of energy into heat?

>>876077

What's the power of your CPU? 100 watt? Typical heater is 1000+ watt. My overclocked rig gives off absolute fuckall of heat whereas my central heat radiators make the room uncomfortably hot while running on minimum throttle, just a notch above "shut tight".

>>876077

At what rate?

>>875867 (OP)

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Gaming-PC-vs-Space-Heater-Efficiency-511/

Two-slot Talos II workstation would do the job.

You just need bigass heatsinks and quiet fans to dissipate the heat.

>>876132

>>not posting the animooted version

>using shitty and laughably inefficient GIF instead of WEBM or MP4

>2018

>>876084

it depends on the number of computers, but it ought to be energy efficient anyway, right?

>>876135

Why do I get the impression that you just learned about thermodynamics in physics 101 and now feel the need to keep stating the obvious? The property you're looking for is a device with high power dissipation, as >>876081 has already told you.

>875867

Resistive heaters are virtually 100% efficient (ignoring generation and transmission losses), but heat pumps beat that by absorbing heat from outside your house.

>In heating mode, heat pumps are three to four times more effective at heating than simple electrical resistance heaters using the same amount of electricity."

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Pump

For your idea to be effective, it would only make sense to make use of computers that are already going to be wasting energy, not installing new ones for the purpose of heating, unless of course the ROI from selling CPU cycles is >300-400%.

If powered by fossil fuels, it will only be environmentally effective until it reaches a point in obsolescence that it would be less polluting to replace your hardware with something more energy efficient. If it's using renewable energy it's not really an issue unless the energy could be better used to help others get off fossil fuels., or if the land could be put to better use.

>>875940

tbh I was hoping thread ended with your post... Guess we can't always have happy endings

>nearly

It has to be 100%... no? Where else would it go to?

Also there is/was a company that had a deal where you'd keep one of their computer/heaters at home with network access, they'd pay you something I think but you'd pay for the electricity. The disadvantage compared to a data center is the computers aren't close together, meaning data transfers will be hell.

>>876149

GIF is always less efficient than any reasonable video codec (and of course that includes VP9 and H.264) when used for something resembling photorealistic footage. Do some fucking research dude.

>>876501

way to go, man. a lot better now.

>>876281

>It has to be 100%... no? Where else would it go to?

some amount of light and other electromagnetic radiation would escape your room (and later some small part of it will escape to space, never to return)