Comments on: Waste Heat From Data Center to Warm a Conservatory http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Ian Falconer http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-8445 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:45:31 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-8445 At the risk of blatent self-promotion. Here’s a few ideas on heat.

http://engagingenergy.com/2009/08/05/random-energy-ideas-part-four/

]]> By: Ian Falconer http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-25416 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-25416 At the risk of blatent self-promotion. Here’s a few ideas on heat.

http://engagingenergy.com/2009/08/05/random-energy-ideas-part-four/

]]> By: Nexyoo http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-8444 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:34:57 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-8444 This is a good idea, and I agree with JJ that we need more use of waste heat overall. In the future, I wonder if data centers will become much more efficient and dramatically reduce the amount of heat they’re producing.

]]> By: Nexyoo http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-25415 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:34:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-25415 This is a good idea, and I agree with JJ that we need more use of waste heat overall. In the future, I wonder if data centers will become much more efficient and dramatically reduce the amount of heat they’re producing.

]]> By: JJ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-8443 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:53:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-8443 We need far more cogeneration. There aren’t that many data centers relative to the population but there is staggering amounts of waste heat from power plants and industrial processes going to waste along with carbon emissions. There needs to be serious moves to change the economics of waste heat to give it some value, so carbon policy rewards those that reuse thermal energy where ever practical.

If we had more heat driven cooling systems then the waste heat can be used year round.

When PCs & large CRTs used 500W in a system, they kept my house warm half the year, of course summer was a problem getting rid of the heat. Luckily PC power usage today is a fraction of that and is still going down quickly. Next years Atom models will use negligible power.

If all the worlds large panel TVs and computer monitors used the Unipixel LCD technology, their power consumption could also drop drastically since this technology uses 10x less energy for the light source. We will see if Samsung releases that next year.

Its like they say, a penny saved is a penny earned.

]]> By: JJ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-25414 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:53:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-25414 We need far more cogeneration. There aren’t that many data centers relative to the population but there is staggering amounts of waste heat from power plants and industrial processes going to waste along with carbon emissions. There needs to be serious moves to change the economics of waste heat to give it some value, so carbon policy rewards those that reuse thermal energy where ever practical.

If we had more heat driven cooling systems then the waste heat can be used year round.

When PCs & large CRTs used 500W in a system, they kept my house warm half the year, of course summer was a problem getting rid of the heat. Luckily PC power usage today is a fraction of that and is still going down quickly. Next years Atom models will use negligible power.

If all the worlds large panel TVs and computer monitors used the Unipixel LCD technology, their power consumption could also drop drastically since this technology uses 10x less energy for the light source. We will see if Samsung releases that next year.

Its like they say, a penny saved is a penny earned.

]]> By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-8442 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:23:29 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-8442 American HIVAC technologies, sorely primitive! Even Canadians know better and illustrate their superiority to Americans with Straw Bale technologies that allow Solar heating of homes at 40 C below zero in great comfort! Question is: How many “Super-Insulations and their applications technologies have been hidden from Americans by the Corporatists? Look what the bastards did to the Electric car! Google, torrent, the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car” and study it well! It may answer why America flounders on the brink of bankruptcy and is facing massive inflationary forces in the very near future! These corporatist bastards, more harmful than terrorists, have stolen away any technologies that threaten their personal invested interests even over and above their patriotism – they are the scum of America an we need a cleansing and flushing of them and their patent Shysters! Even the government is in into these schemes and the U.S. Navy, according to a now silenced site, has depleted Uranium Super batteries to make Solar, Wind, wave, Tidal technologies viable, but hide them from the Patriots! Scoundrel scum bag bastards! – Check the movie for who they are, how to identify them and how powerful they and their lobbies really are! More powerful than your votes – look at Obama turncoat for them! The anti-American , pro-ROI bastards! America! Beware the enemy from within! Your fall is imminent and fourth-coming! Beware the corporatist!

]]> By: Uncle B http://cleantechnica.com/2009/12/17/waste-heat-from-data-center-to-warm-a-conservatory/#comment-25413 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:23:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4226#comment-25413 American HIVAC technologies, sorely primitive! Even Canadians know better and illustrate their superiority to Americans with Straw Bale technologies that allow Solar heating of homes at 40 C below zero in great comfort! Question is: How many “Super-Insulations and their applications technologies have been hidden from Americans by the Corporatists? Look what the bastards did to the Electric car! Google, torrent, the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car” and study it well! It may answer why America flounders on the brink of bankruptcy and is facing massive inflationary forces in the very near future! These corporatist bastards, more harmful than terrorists, have stolen away any technologies that threaten their personal invested interests even over and above their patriotism – they are the scum of America an we need a cleansing and flushing of them and their patent Shysters! Even the government is in into these schemes and the U.S. Navy, according to a now silenced site, has depleted Uranium Super batteries to make Solar, Wind, wave, Tidal technologies viable, but hide them from the Patriots! Scoundrel scum bag bastards! – Check the movie for who they are, how to identify them and how powerful they and their lobbies really are! More powerful than your votes – look at Obama turncoat for them! The anti-American , pro-ROI bastards! America! Beware the enemy from within! Your fall is imminent and fourth-coming! Beware the corporatist!

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