It has been a serious subject in engineering for decades, it’s only becoming more common because heat is becoming more expensive and polygeneration can now be used as for marketing
It’s not really. Sell a solar powered hot water heater that just happens to be a small DC in a box to people with stable fiber connections. Make them subsidized and voila … distributed data centers that are cheaper, more efficient, energy reducing, and much less problematic.
I’ve seen the same principal used to heat houses. Wasting energy should be illegal.
This man is about to sue entropy out of existence
It’s much more complicated than it seems
90% of what humans have accomplished is more complicated than it seems. any programmer or engineer will confirm.
if this was a priority for the people in power, it would already be done.
It has been a serious subject in engineering for decades, it’s only becoming more common because heat is becoming more expensive and polygeneration can now be used as for marketing
It’s not really. Sell a solar powered hot water heater that just happens to be a small DC in a box to people with stable fiber connections. Make them subsidized and voila … distributed data centers that are cheaper, more efficient, energy reducing, and much less problematic.
And how do you cool it in summer, when people don’t need as much heat?