Comments on: Amazon to Use Server Farm Waste Heat for Office Heating

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:41:11 +0000

my building had waste heat
my building had waste heat recovery from the data center but the intensity is so low that it's not of much value. By the time it arrives at the building there is not much intensity left to drive energy transfer. our engineer said it would be useful to preheat water but that was about it.

By: stu

stu — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:39:41 +0000

I loved your droll comment
I loved your droll comment about electricity being turned into kitten videos and celebrity tweets... and waste heat.
you are funny.

By: Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:21:00 +0000

When I was in high school and
When I was in high school and college in the late 60's and early 70's, I had a side job as a draftsman for Electrical Testing Laboratories (now ETL). I always remember my first tour of the building with Frank Moses, their chief engineer. Among the highlights was a room of air conditioners undergoing performance tests. Frank pointed out that they always tried to stage tests that required either heat or heat removal to use the waste heat from another test. As an aside, I also remember a Porsche on a test rack to test seat belt mounting points--a destructive test, as there was less Porsche each time I saw it.