I use it to heat my house.

    • 18107@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Most engines are less than 30% efficient at producing movement. The majority of the energy is lost as heat.

      Thermodynamics tells us that pretty much all energy ends up as heat. In a closed system, any device that uses energy is 100% efficient at making heat. A 1000W computer will make exactly as much heat as a 1000W heater.

      A 100% efficient engine can only exist if the desired output is heat, thus making it a pretty useless engine. Also, in a closed system, the exhaust cannot leave.

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 years ago

        A 1000W computer will make exactly as much heat as a 1000W heater.

        All space heaters should be coin miners (or some other borderline useless energy wasting tech, like AI training). Change my mind.

        • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 years ago

          If you want to be philanthropic, there are programs you can run that use your computer’s idle time to process data for cancer research and such.