proof of concept
65 °C water is just fine to warm the building, warm water, pool... 30 degree air is not good for anything. Obviously you want to do this in bigger increments than 9 kW.
Paris, because she will heat her jacuzzi with it.
Posts by Pascal Dornier
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IBM's new water-cooled supercomputer fires up
Apple patent seeks to reinvent retail
Will Intel's Braidwood threaten SSD uptake?
Tuesday 1st September 2009 22:56 GMT
easier than SSD
Some thoughts - a flash cache like Robson or Braidwood does not have to deal with the thorny wear leveling issues that an SSD has to face. Even the crappiest MLC flash will do, if there is a CRC error on flash just read the block from HDD instead. Applications don't churn too often, so the number of erase cycles will be manageable.
What makes Braidwood potentially more interesting is the better performance of new NAND flash interfaces (DDR style transfers at higher rates than the 20 MB/s of normal NAND), and the higher density now available with 34 nm technology.
How much of a market there will be for SSD is up to NAND flash vendors, their products make up most of the cost of an SSD... At the moment flash prices are going in the wrong direction (up).
'Supermodel' glow-in-the-dark pocket monkeys created
Israel electric car project aims to wipe out oil
Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:03 GMT
dirty power stations
Car engines are << 25% efficiency, and 0% efficiency while idling. Thermal power plants are usually between 33% and 40% efficiency, and can be cleaned up quite well.
Material supply for large quantities of batteries seems a bigger concern. The need for exchangeability in this concept also makes it difficult to adapt to new technologies or different size cars.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
