The cloud that keeps you warm at night
heats your water tank etc.: http://gigaom.com/2013/05/24/meet-the-cloud-that-will-keep-you-warm-at-night... Needs 50MB/sec broadband.. Regards Peter
FWIW, I have no doubt in my mind that the heat from the 400W power supply in my PC is contributing to heating my house! The room where this PC is located is distinctly slightly warmer than the rest of the house and there is no other obvious reason for this to be so. In fact, this room should be cooler as is one of the rooms further away from the ducted heating unit, but it is not. Cheers Daniel. On 29/08/13 12:02, Petros wrote:
heats your water tank etc.:
http://gigaom.com/2013/05/24/meet-the-cloud-that-will-keep-you-warm-at-night...
Needs 50MB/sec broadband..
Regards Peter
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Daniel Jitnah wrote:
FWIW, I have no doubt in my mind that the heat from the 400W power supply in my PC is contributing to heating my house! The room where this PC is located is distinctly slightly warmer than the rest of the house and there is no other obvious reason for this to be so. In fact, this room should be cooler as is one of the rooms further away from the ducted heating unit, but it is not.
Cheers Daniel.
On 29/08/13 12:02, Petros wrote:
heats your water tank etc.:
http://gigaom.com/2013/05/24/meet-the-cloud-that-will-keep-you-warm-at-night... .... and warm in summer ?
regards Rohan McLeod
On 29/08/13 13:06, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Daniel Jitnah wrote:
FWIW, I have no doubt in my mind that the heat from the 400W power supply in my PC is contributing to heating my house! The room where this PC is located is distinctly slightly warmer than the rest of the house and there is no other obvious reason for this to be so. In fact, this room should be cooler as is one of the rooms further away from the ducted heating unit, but it is not.
Cheers Daniel.
On 29/08/13 12:02, Petros wrote:
heats your water tank etc.:
http://gigaom.com/2013/05/24/meet-the-cloud-that-will-keep-you-warm-at-night... .... and warm in summer ?
Haha!! :) .. I dare say yes!! Cheers, D.
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{Replying to Daniel Jitnah <djitnah@greenwareit.com.au>:]
FWIW, I have no doubt in my mind that the heat from the 400W power supply in my PC is contributing to heating my house! The room where this PC is located is distinctly slightly warmer than the rest of the house and there is no other obvious reason for this to be so. In fact, this room should be cooler as is one of the rooms further away from the ducted heating unit, but it is not.
Going in the other direction, towards lower power use: In fact that's one of the reasons why I switched from a regular PC tower (at 140W) to a Fit-PC (2W idle, 8W at full tilt) for my home server. I figured it would pay for itself in a couple of years of power bills savings. Those little Android dongles, like the RK808, sometimes styled "Google TV" are pretty cheap (around $50 these days) and would make that trade-off even more attractive -- though it depends on what your needs are. There are efforts going on to run say Debian natively on such devices (rather than in say a chroot). I use my Raspberry Pi often as a low-end desktop machine and it's mostly usable for simple things -- if a bit laggy at times. I wonder how much faster it would run off an external USB drive instead of the SD card. I suspect that swap is the main laggy factor. -- Smiles, Les.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
FWIW, I have no doubt in my mind that the heat from the 400W power supply in my PC is contributing to heating my house! The room where this PC is located is distinctly slightly warmer than the rest of the house and there is no other obvious reason for this to be so. In fact, this room should be cooler as is one of the rooms further away from the ducted heating unit, but it is not.
400W is about a quarter of a bar heater. Bar heaters do get warm. Mind you, it's not actually drawing 400watts, especially if it's a power supply that can in reality only provide 200watts (400 chinese watts) before flaking out. We have a couple of new Vblock racks that are being commissioned right now at work. They're not actually running a load yet, but our facilities guy is worried that they're already taking 80% of their stated load without doing anything yet. -- Tim Connors
[Replying to Petros <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au>]
heats your water tank etc.: http://gigaom.com/2013/05/24/meet-the-cloud-that-will-keep-you-warm-at-night... Needs 50MB/sec broadband..
On a much smaller scale, my son Andy, when he was younger, had in his bedroom a G5 tower, dual CPU (not just dual core), liquid-cooled, with an 800W power supply. He didn't need a heater -- he could just crank up some grunty computation on cold winter nights. Andy still has that G5 tower, but sadly it died a while back. It's such a beautiful machine. When you see it, you want to kneel down before it and worship it :-). If we ever got it working again, I guess we could install PPC Linux, like I've done on my antique G4 Powerbooks. I wonder what the economics would be of heating your home with say Bitcoin mining... -- Smiles, Les.
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