eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1303arrow-down118
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minus-squareDavid J. Atkinson@c.imlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day ago@phutatorius @technology So, a high-efficiency thermoelectric generator, powered by #datacenter heat directly, might be a win-win. I don’t understand why the current (jk) #technology efficiency is still so low. Surely someone must be working on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
minus-squareVeloRama@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoyou still need thermal radiators to create the temperature differential.
@phutatorius @technology So, a high-efficiency thermoelectric generator, powered by #datacenter heat directly, might be a win-win. I don’t understand why the current (jk) #technology efficiency is still so low. Surely someone must be working on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
you still need thermal radiators to create the temperature differential.