On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov> wrote: > > I imagine it would have to be filtered, too, to keep small marine life and > debris from clogging up the piping. I wonder if any forms of marine life in > that part of the ocean would like the warm water inside the heat exchangers > or at the exhaust and try to make it their homes.
my guess it's probably a low risk. not only are the pipes likely full copper, which is toxic to most marine life, but the flow rate inside the pipes is probably high enough that nothing has much of a chance to stick. there's probably just some course basic filters that need to scrubbed clear every once in a while. i'm not sure i see a point in all this anyhow, it's a neat science experiment, but what's the ROI on sinking a container full of servers vs just pumping cold seawater from 100ft down and the servers are likely fail at some rate, at what point do they consider a failed container failed and pull it back up from to the surface to fix the hardware and since just about every boat in the world leaks in some way, i suspect this one will too _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf