[Cialug] Tips for a green(er) data center

[David Champion]

Paul Gray wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
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>>>  Or use the waste heat from the servers for something practical like
>>>  supplementing the water heater or producing moonshine.
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>> In our new server room design, we intend to redirect the server room
>> heat out to our warehouse/production floor to supplement the heating.
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> We use the bits dropped by our router as a salt substitute to clear our
> roads.  We have ample supplies, and a lot less surface rust on our
> vehicles.  The longer bits (from our 10Mbit links) tend to puncture
> tires every once in a while, though.
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I was going to hack a popeil rotisserie oven into the back of our server 
rack and cook broasted chicken for lunch with the heat from the servers. 
But I like Ken's idea of using the heat for moonshine.

-dc