If you want a 100% efficient computer like me, all you have to do - and it’s very simple!

Count all of the noise and heat as useful work.

  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻OPEnglish
    3·
    20 days ago

    I’m in QLD freezing my arse off, however, you could pair the computer with a thermoelectric generator to absorb the heat from the computer and power it. However, that probably won’t work and would be an infinite power hack. It wouldn’t make the room cooler but not make the room hotter.

    Edit: It’s been attempted! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9728234

    • BadlyDrawnRhino
      2·
      20 days ago

      You’re right, I should have been clearer: This doesn’t work in Queensland, aside from the two to three weeks of jumper weather we get per year.

      • ZagorathEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        two to three weeks of jumper weather

        You mean two to three months, right?

        And by two to three, you mean four to five, right?

        • BadlyDrawnRhino
          2·
          20 days ago

          Brisbane, but I’m also overweight so my perception of the cold may be skewed.