I saw an interesting post that said
All electronics are 100% efficient in the winter
Now that we have reverse cycle AC (heat pumps), 100% is a low bar.
Love my heat pump, although its not AC. In the UK if you get ground/air to water the government give you £7.5k towards it. Air to air you get nothing. I suppose it is quieter, but for the 2/3 days in summer where it goes over 30°c having AC would be nice.
I’ve heard tell of mystery tech to make the water heat pumps make cold. I’m sure I’ll be more tempted to investigate further when summer comes.
I live in the UK, its always humid. You will end up with a condensation radiator.
Like it’s not humid in the American South?
There are cities in Florida with an average humidity of 89%. The British go nuts when the humidity goes above 70% for a few weeks a year.
You would probably end up with the same condensation issues there then. Unless the system is build differently to start with to consider that, but at that point you are replacing the entire system anyway.
??? All are built, and have always been built assuming condensation.
If heat pumps work fine in 90% humidity, 70% isn’t a problem.
I love my gaming PC and 3d printer in the winter. Keeps my room toasty without me needing to run the heat much at all.
I hate those same things in the summer when I gotta have fans or AC just so I don’t melt lol
I turn off Folding@Home in the summer. Otherwise it’s on 24x7.
Wow f@h still kicking?
Electricity generated heat from your servers is incredibly inefficient compared to a heat pump.
No one is comparing efficiency of a PC as a heating device to a Heat Pump.
So I’m not sure why you felt the need to post this.
Because the usefulness of waste heat in the winter is no reason to intentionally run an inefficient server if a lower power option is available.
Some might think ( as has been posted in this thread by others), “I’ll run superPI to heat my room.”
Here me out: a global computing cooperative –
Collectively owned servers and gaming PCs are run at max power wherever it’s winter at the time, streaming the data to where it is needed.I mean data center excess heat is already used for district heating and that’s a shared resource. Not free or communal computing resource though.
