A century-old Scottish distillery has halved its CO 2 emissions with waste-heat recovery tech. Others could follow suit — if regulations and economics align.
One huge use I can see, but isn’t being used as far as I’m aware, is data centers. They use a ton of energy, but when it turns to heat it’s only seen as a negative to expel. Why not capture it and use it to heat houses/water or something? It turns the massive energy use into effectively near zero, since heating is needed anyway in a lot of places.
One huge use I can see, but isn’t being used as far as I’m aware, is data centers. They use a ton of energy, but when it turns to heat it’s only seen as a negative to expel. Why not capture it and use it to heat houses/water or something? It turns the massive energy use into effectively near zero, since heating is needed anyway in a lot of places.
It is being used in some places actually:
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/data-center-heat-green-energy/
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/data-center-warms-homes-waste-heat
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/