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A French company developed heating elements for apartments with four CPUs in it. The consumer uses it like a normal heater while the company sells the computing power to editors etc.

They dont really go into hardware details but the concept seems to be interesting


The interesting part starts at about 3:30min
The video is in French (which shouldnt be a problem in Canada ;) ) http://www.arte.tv/magazine/futuremag/fr/linnovation-jugaad-065882-005

or German http://www.arte.tv/magazine/futuremag/de/weniger-ist-mehr-065882-005

 

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21 minutes ago, blorkborg said:

A French company developed heating elements for apartments with four CPUs in it. The consumer uses it like a normal heater while the company sells the computing power to editors etc.

They dont really go into hardware details but the concept seems to be interesting


The interesting part starts at about 3:30min
The video is in French (which shouldnt be a problem in Canada ;) ) http://www.arte.tv/magazine/futuremag/fr/linnovation-jugaad-065882-005

or German http://www.arte.tv/magazine/futuremag/de/weniger-ist-mehr-065882-005

 

Haha I do the same with my PC and F@H.

Start a work unit in the morning when it's 18,5°C and the 400 watt heater kicks in. By the time the WU is finished it's 23°C and it feels nice ;)

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I think IBM uses the water that cools their servers as a heater for the hall building aswell

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Love the idea, imagine you can lend random People on the Internet your pc when you don't Need it and make Money out of it...

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On 6/2/2016 at 1:57 PM, blorkborg said:


The video is in French (which shouldnt be a problem in Canada ;) )

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA... ha. Good one.

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The idea is quite good, but you have to factor in the energy needed to produce the chips. Processing wavers is a very energy hungry and polluting.

when they use old HW from datacenters it's fine. When chips will be produced extra for this heaters, it migth be worse for the environnement.

 

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4 hours ago, C0LL0SS0S said:

Love the idea, imagine you can lend random People on the Internet your pc when you don't Need it and make Money out of it...

a lot of people lend their pc to other people online but dont know it and dont get any money


but the pay thing would be nice. you can donate computing power for searching prime number

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On 2/6/2016 at 1:57 PM, blorkborg said:

The video is in French (which shouldnt be a problem in Canada ;) )

If only the video worked in Canada haha, I'm hoping the consumer gets some of the money that the company gets from selling the computing power. It'd have to be a lot for it to be worth heating a house with electricity over natural gas let alone trying to be cheaper than wood around here too. Heating with wood is pretty common, and is pretty cheap if you cut it yourself, although I'm getting way off-topic now.

 

Interesting idea though, I wonder how bad the fluctuation on available computing power would be with people's heaters turning on and off all the time.

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Can anyone confirm this isnt a hoax?

 i mean it seriously sounds like one...

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4 hours ago, linuxfan66 said:

 

Can anyone confirm this isnt a hoax?

 i mean it seriously sounds like one...

 

the report was on arte, a french-german tv cooperation funded by both governements and normally doesnt report bullshit. the concept of distributing computing power is already used in bitcoin mining and searching for prime numbers. to me it sounds quite doable as long as people dont switch the heater on and of every minute

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