http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/ Engadget Comments for Heat from data center used to warm Swiss swimming pool http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
The unit mismatch is like saying you drive 65 miles per hour per year... it's only useful to say you drove a certain number of miles or drive at an average rate... watts/year as well as mph/year would actually represent accelerations, and are useful measures in different ways than most people think... (e.g. world energy consumption could be said to be increasing by so many watts/year or a spaceship might accelerate by so many MPH/year but you cant "use" or "move" in units of watts/year or mph/year)

Here's hoping the press release guy at IBM isn't tasked with any real work...
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Heating a swimming pool is a neat idea, but I actually do power my servers with solar power. No really. I also put in ductwork to suck hot air out of the server room and pump it to the entrances of the building during the winter, to help keep the cold out of the office. Saves my company a couple thousand a year in electricity for the servers and a dedicated AC unit.

http://www.jbdg.com/solar.html

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But this isn't about using electric heat to warm the pool or the parent posters room. This is about reuse of waste heat. These computers are going to be running for whatever prupose they were built for, not for heating pools or rooms, but if the waste heat from them can be used to offset the energy that would otherwise be required to heat a pool (or a room), it is most definitely a gain in energy usage efficiency.

However, I'll gladly accept your line of reasoning as relevant when you can show me how to run my computer efficiently off gas. :)]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
"It's the computers, mom, I swear!"]]>Apr 3rd 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 4th 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
That said, it's the inefficiency of the computer that makes it a good idea. Improving the efficiency of the computer, reducing excess heat, and then supplying the remaining needed heat to the pool with gas would increase the overall efficiency.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 4th 2008 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
Heat exchangers can be air-to-liquid, liquid-to-liquid, or air-to-air. So what "heat exchanger" implies is neither obvious in the posting nor in your comment.

Liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers offer the best heat transfer, so that's what they SHOULD use. Since they can't likely use the pool water directly as the coolant on the CPU, that'd be the best way to go. Although they could additionally use an air-to liquid exchanger outside of the computers to gain even more radiant heat.]]>Apr 7th 2008 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
"Yeah, but it's cheaper to run a gas furnace than electricity for heat (more BTUs per dollar). Also, more thermodynamically efficient. Hence, natural gas furnaces."]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
It's going to be using 5GW-hr or ~570kW avg.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Do I need a space heater? No. Will I buy a 360? ...No.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/*golf clap*]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
so is that what you do with all your computers running microsoft?

GO APPLE!!!

sorry, trying to figure out which type of fanboy is more idiotic. i'm beginning to think fanboy anything is idiotic. or maybe that's just my 8 year high school education talking.]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/"That's a great solution. The pool where I used to live in Hobart uses the heat in the sewerage pipes"

Are you saying that other people's warm poop heats your swimming water?]]>Apr 3rd 2008 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/attachment/21514.wss?fileId=ATTACH_FILE2&fileName=_MG_9056gr4.jpg

Or are ya scared IBM finds out you're stealing their images without putting a nice reference on it? ;-)]]>Apr 3rd 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 3rd 2008 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/03/heat-from-data-center-used-to-warm-swiss-swimming-pool/Apr 15th 2008 10:04PM