After an hour of surfing through each web in the Peter's list of webs for reading, I've found this one that might interest my classmates too. I hope.
According to
"Heating houses with 'nerd power'" (2015), excessive heat which is generated as a by-product of computing in computer servers is used to warm buildings and heat water. For examples, the Nerdalize eRadiator, which is a mini data centres for providing cloud services, and Bahnhof's data centres are generating heat for warming house in Netherlands and supplies hot water in Sweden respectively.
However, there is a security concern for data inside the radiator because the radiator is in consumer's house and can be cracked open. Florian Schneider, co-founder of Nerdalize company, assured the public that it is safe because data is encrypted. However, in order to strengthen the security, I think that these data should be frequently moved around amongst other radiators. Another method that can be used together is to separately store data and combine them on use. In these ways, it is hard to track down where the specific data is and, also, the data cannot be read even if it is stolen.
By the way, I have heard of something that is similar to this radiator before. It was a concept of business model where there is no centralised data centre and all mini data centres are distributed to voluntary users. They will be able to freely use cloud services and earn money for hosting these cloud services for other users at the same time. It is similar to owning solar cells and selling surplus generated electricity back to the grid. At the time I heard of this concept, it really makes me want to open a start-up of my own. However, the quality of Internet service provider in Thailand puts me in doubt. It is going to be a total failure if the Internet access is not stable.
Anyway, if these radiators can generate cold instead, I would gladly replace all air conditioners in my house with them without any hesitation at all. It is 40 Celsius degree out there.
Kremer, W. (2015, May 21).
Heating houses with 'nerd power'. BBC News Magazine. Retrieved from
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32816775.
Love the brand name - Nerdalize. It sounds like a verb for an action I'm not sure most would want to suffer.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like something that you would see on TV when TV shopping comes up late at night, and just like most of the time, you wouldn't consider buying it.
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