Recent content by Arqane

I wasn't asking how to make it work. I was just asking if some of the basics of it broke the laws of physics, pretty much.

Yes, I did post somewhere in this fairly long thread that the elements are usually only on for 2-3 hours per day in an average household. Very different style compared to a normal data center, but it would have its perks. But that was definitely a cost/value proposition I considered.

This was just one idea to use the very large amount of power the apartments would be producing. Since they're made to cover 100% of the usage in the apartments, they actually have to cover a bit extra to make sure the total used doesn't go above what is produced. I've been asking around, and...

Yes, well, I didn't want to give out my whole master plan, even though it's a fairly specific niche. But besides the sustainability benefit, it really does seem like a data center's dream come true. Most of their costs end up being the electric bill to power it all plus cooling it all, as well.

Well the thought process is that I simply wanted higher power processors in the same space. 20 i9s, or especially 30+ i5s or below (to make it cheap) just doesn't fit in the space. They don't have to be inefficient. But at the same time, if I could find a cheap generic company that skipped...

I guess I will just explain the whole concept instead of dodging it, as it should help explain things much more clearly. I am looking to build a system to put processors into water heaters and use the output heat to do the job a normal heating element would. Water heaters use about 20% of the...

I want to heat a water heater, which are generally heated with 4.5kW heating elements

Yes, I counted on that, though I was still curious about the viability of the idea in the first place. If it was promising, then it's an application that could use about 1 million of these printed pretty quickly. With that scale, it makes more sense, especially if the design was mostly a copy...

Yes, the original idea came from bit mining, though that isn't exactly the end goal. But it was thought of after a guy burned off his extra generation from his solar panels with bit mining (generally more lucrative than selling it back at wholesale rates). And it already has been done using an...

Because ultimately I'm looking for closer to 5kW of heat in somewhere around 1 cubic foot of space. And fitting 20 of the current highest power CPUs in that space is difficult. It would work for the heat portion, but every watt from the nichrome is not being used for any computing. The...

With the i9 I mentioned, if you want to output the same heat as an average space heater (1.5kW), you could run about 6 processors at max capacity (241W each) to get that heat output. If you had (currently imaginary) 750W processors, you'd only need two to produce the same heat, and as long as...

The liquid would max out/shut down at about 150F/65C range. It is not a great temperature difference from safe conditions of a CPU at that maximum, but the flow rate over the CPU would be high and would be replenished with 80-100F/27-37C liquid most of the time.

If the heat is not dispersed, absolutely. But if you had a 240W processor in a computer that was dispersing heat very well, it's going to be less damaged by heat than a 120W processor in a computer with horrible dispersion. In the same vein, no matter what maximum wattage the processor uses...

Nah, it's actually doing it backwards. It's saying that we're already wasting electricity burning it off to make heat, like with nichrome, and instead getting processing power out of that wasted electricity and still getting the exact same amount of heat.

No, you're taking it one step too far. It's simply saying that because you're already using your freezer for something else, that you'll take advantage of the fact that it makes heat. Putting a heater in the freezer is ridiculous, inefficient, and isn't something that you already normally do...