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Hot idea: recycling wasted energy

Posted on September 30, 2008

by Adam Stein Bill McKibben once lamented the unsexiness of waste heat recovery, an energy efficiency technique that languishes in obscurity despite its potentially huge environmental benefits. Perhaps this story will capture the public imagination: in a move that will save money and cut carbon emissions, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana has begun housing some of its computer servers in the nearby Arizona Desert Dome, a conservatory for cacti and other desert plants.Computer servers create a lot of waste heat so much so that keeping them cool is a major cost driver and engine...

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