Quote from: jimmothy on September 09, 2014, 10:42:30 PM

Quote from: adesanctis on September 09, 2014, 10:14:42 PM

For one: Scams usually ask for stuff ($ mainly). We don't. We're just looking to talk with people. If an investor comes along, we'll talk to them too (we are). So let's settle down on that. If you are someone who doesn't want to give your money, rest assured, we don't want it.

Quote from: adesanctis on September 09, 2014, 07:24:47 PM

In the coming weeks, we'll be starting a KS campaign to raise money for R&D. Ideally, we'd actually like to crowd source a lot of the R&D particularly as we develop the distributed networking capacity.

Wise of you to go with kickstarter. This is exactly the type of scam they eat up.

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For two: thanks for the feedback. It's why I'm here.

It's a proof of concept: not a product ready for sale, distribution, etc. The question really isn't where do you get more cold water - it's how do make sure the material components heating the water through heat exchange can handle that type of long term stress AND make the thing work over a larger distributed network so when the demand for heat is there, there is data to fire up the components to provide heat.

I'm not sure what concept you are proving or even what you are trying to say. Seems like you're just circumventing the question.

Watercooling is a widely proven technology. You've just added a water tank that stores the hot water and cools it later.

Why not just heat the air by computing when you need heating instead of when you don't? (via a $20 heatsink+fan combo)

Honestly what's the point?

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The concept also has really strong applications with datacenters, but I think that's a different discussion.

Please do share. Preferably without the obfuscation.

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I actually have some good build pics and screen grabs of testing....but I'm at a loss as to how to post pics on here. Lil help? Anyone?

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I think you are missing a major point, which is probably my fault - The concept is that this (or a future version of something like it that doesn't use water cooling technology) replaces the furnace (separate gas / oil input), water heater tank (separate gas / electrical input), or AC unit (electrical input). All of those things bring in energy for the sole purpose of doing one thing - heating, cooling, whatever. We are talking about having energy coming in to do multiple tasks at once....Combining heating needs and computation. When you couple something like this with say, solar and battery storage technology, it can get real interesting. The idea is to reduce the number of energy inputs and increase (or at the very least maintain) the productive outputs.

re: data centers:

They pull a TON of juice dude just to keep them going. You know what else they pull juice for (on a separate input?). Cooling. It's constant and it's REALLY expensive. Do I have to get into the principles of thermodynamics for the cooling part on this? As long as we can produce the heat onsite within a certain range (and also depending on the system type), we can cool the stacks without drawing a separate load to do the same thing. Also, the remaining waste heat can be used to heat the building, water tanks, etc.

Stand by on the pics - sorry you have to hold my hand here - do I have to have an image hosting serve?