On Wed May 25, 2022 at 10:31:44PM +0100, Tom Hill wrote: > To this day I can't think of anywhere in the UK that uses more heating. > They're always absolutely roasting inside. Probably few places more > deserving of free heating, too.
Many DC have tried (inc Telehouse), at the BBC we tried to give waste shortwave transmitter heat (Rampisham refurb) to the farm next door but that was the 80s when people cared less but still a farmer declining free stuff they usually pay for?). It comes down to district heating has bad connotations of leaky council district heating systems that always failed. They were mostly all ripped out as a result. It's very expensive to retrofit that back. Maybe with all the new flat building over the last 20 years it could have worked if the government required it but most are not near a DC and developers like simple cheap cookie cutter designs and don't prioritise anything else (see flamable cladding). People are starting to do it where they have control of the heat source and the distribution (see scandinavia) It's one of the things I had in mind for the bunker but I got distracted with installing FTTP in awkward places. Stage one is recover server heat to heat the rest of the bunker (it's doing that a bit currently just on convection, we have no active cooling). Stage 2 is export some of the heat to the rest of the camp (they have a central biomass boiler making that a little easier). Stage 3 is to try some vertical farming. It needs more hours in a day and money and with crazy power prices it seems I need to build a solar farm first. If that works I have a few ideas of wher eto deploy it. brandon
