Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
by xyproto on Monday August 13, 2018 @04:20AM
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Few companies could and would throw money at a project like this. Environmentally friendly datacenters are needed.
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Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:16AM
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Dumping heat in the ocean is not environmentally friendly. That heat could have been used to heat up buildings.
Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
by xyproto on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:39AM
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Almost all the energy we have, ultimately comes from the sun. As long as we can covert energy in a clean way, there is nothing inherently environmentally unfriendly about spending energy on one thing that could have been used for another thing.
Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
by HappyRobot on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @07:13AM
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Yes, but we need to be careful when we discharge excess heat. The sudden addition of unnatural heat can be an issue for ocean ecosystems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution
Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
by joering2 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:44AM
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Something tells me that thausands of heat exchangers where you produce hot and exachange it for cold, at the bottom of oceans which already are recording highest temperatures in modern history, is not much of envrionment friendly.
Re:Project Natick – Underwater datacenter with live cameras
by hazbot on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:42AM
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I would be very surprised if the waste heat had any significant impact more than a few meters/yards from the container. Water has a really high heat capacity and the oceans are large.
Almost all the energy that is heating up the ocean is coming from the sun - we've just put a thicker blanket round the earth to trap more heat. Waste heat from human activity is a tiny part of the global energy balance.