Comments on: Facebook Photos Could Warm Homes

By: Hilario Priem

Hilario Priem — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:02:23 +0000

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By: Carryn Little

Carryn Little — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:46:14 +0000

Cheers, awesome post.

By: Rhys Little

Rhys Little — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:41:47 +0000

Hi, found some really good info on combined heat and power here, it's a really efficient way of using up that spent energy. CHP is getting a lot bigger in the UK too, especially with the predicted UK Power shortages - there is an article are about standby power and CHP and how it can help

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:26:31 +0000

@chrisp68

Any source of enough industrial heat can generate electricity from it, using CHP. Per the EPA, on the Qualcomm project and others:

“As of October 2008, 16 commercial data centers in the United States are using CHP, representing a total capacity of more than 16MW.”

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:12:30 +0000

Syracuse University now has the worlds greenest data center using microturbines for trigeneration. Very cool stuff and way overdue IMHO. F

http://www.capstoneturbine.com/

or…

http://www.capstoneturbine.com/news/video/view/syracuse.asp

By: chrisp68

chrisp68 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:25:19 +0000

They are not generating electricity. They will just be wasting less of it. Where do you think the heat comes from? There is more energy used to power the cloud than all renewables combined.

However I do agree that we should encourage more cloud computing and virtual servers. This will centralize the data storage in an efficient manner and allow for these facilities to be powered with more efficient means of Electricity. IE DC from alternative sources.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:53:03 +0000

I found it really informative and useful Thanks for sharing this article.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:49:50 +0000

While data servers do use an enormous amount of electricity, the companies in charge of them are some of the most eco-responsible in the world. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dell, etc are very ecofriendly companies and continually strive to do better.