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Computer Heated Water

Warm your water by folding protein.
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Because energy cannot cease to exist, and the chips in our computers do little to no work physics wise, our computers are essentially expensive, low wattage fan heaters. I propose that we occasionally utilize the heat instead of simply "blowing it off". For example, you could have several motherboard, processor, ram, and solid state hard disk combos of the highest wattage per dollar running a distributed computing project heat your water. Or perhaps you could buy a ton of cheap dell towers and use them as a forced air heater. Sure it's not cost effective, but imagine all the protein you could fold...
Tankgunk, Jan 08 2008


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       Water cooling for computers is baked, and so it should be possible to daisychain a number of such items and use it to preheat the hot water system. Good thinking [+].
vincevincevince, Jan 08 2008
  

       Possible. [+]
webfishrune, Jan 08 2008
  

       mmm...protein
Spacecoyote, Jan 08 2008
  


 

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