On Monday, 5 June 2017 1:03:00 AM AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
On 04/06/17 15:35, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
For someone whom is sold on the belief that climate change is a very serious issue, one would think that the use of IT equipment to generate heat via the use of energy would be somewhat hypocritical as it would be much less efficient to generate heat this way, even if for a good cause, wouldn't it?
Generating heat via a PC is exactly as efficient as generating it via any electric heater that's not a heat-pump. I don't advocate running electric heaters either. But some useful waste heat in Winter while generating useful scientific calculations is much better than buying servers to run in server rooms with dedicated cooling. Most server rooms give double waste electricity use, for calculations and for cooling. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/