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Big Blue turns green. Heat from building warms local pool water
Have ever thought that all of that heat being generated by electronic circuits could be put to good use, rather than just released into the atmosphere? A Swiss data storage company called GIB-Services thought it could, so when they contracted with IBM to build a new high security data storage center near Zurich Switzerland, they figured out a way to channel most of the heat generated by the center's cooling systems, to warm up the water in the local public pool. Due to be completed later this year, it is estimated that the collaboration will save 130 tons of carbon emissions per year.
From IBM, via Gadgetell.com
By Larry Sheldon at 6:59 PM ON 04/06/08
I call BS.
In the 1960's and 1970's (believe it or not, the US used to have a manufacturing capability) "Silicon Valley" was full of wafer-fab and other facilities with a "waste heat" problem.
A common solution was a big pool, a "lake" or some such into which waste heat was dumped.
IBM just got theirs for free (again, probably).
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