• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    It might be interesting to use waste heat to power fans. That’s right in that range for power needs, and it could be largely self-contained.

    For something like a data center, that could add up.

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      5 months ago

      Data centers will probably be the only practical application. Consumer electronics will probably barely produce enough energy to power the regulator and tie-in circuit just to feed back into the pwm driver for fans nowadays.