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19 votes
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Data centers don't raise people's water bills
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The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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How can England possibly be running out of water?
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Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
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California farmers are installing solar, providing financial stability and saving water
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Less rain, more wheat: How Australian farmers defied climate doom
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The Icelandic landscape is changing, and it's changing us
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The hidden engineering of floating bridges
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Nebraska sues neighboring Colorado over how much water it’s drawing from the South Platte River
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'I can't drink the water' - Life next to a US data centre
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and sponge parks
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Calgary brings fluoride back to its drinking water
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We are setting out to rewild an Icelandic wetland in a complex project involving birds, freshwater habitats and large areas of degraded peatland
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When the Swedish town of Kallinge discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of PFAS, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children's future
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How sewage recycling works
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One man's vision brought water back to a drought-ridden Ecuadorian town. He used a map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon.
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Ring the fish doorbell!
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New device lets homeowners test tap water for lead easily
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Groundwater is rapidly declining in the Colorado River Basin, satellite data show
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Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to study the melting glaciers of Iceland
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
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Ancient Roman wooden water pipe made from hollow tree trunks unearthed beneath a street in Belgium
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This 200-year-old lighter ignites without a spark
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The crypto racket - public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution
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Running the first 100km of the oldest river in the world to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike rivers affected by local populations of people, the Finke is affected by those who don’t live there.
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We can terraform the American West
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How Hoover Dam works
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Entrepreneurs are hauling bergs from the Arctic island of Greenland, betting there are enough people willing to pay up for an extra-chilled drink
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Clobazam, an anti-anxiety drug, is polluting our waterways – Swedish study found traces of the drug had altered the way wild Atlantic salmon migrate
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New plastic dissolves in the ocean overnight, leaving no microplastics
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Miami-Dade County commissioners vote in favor of removing fluoride from water systems
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Freshly revealed at Minecraft Live, a major new graphical update is on the way to Minecraft, titled "Vibrant Visuals"
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The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
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How can I prevent my work computers turning my home into an oven?
[Edit] Details on the plan as it stands are here, potentially using one of these heat pumps. Looking for advice before the weather starts to warm up! I'm running multiple GPUs for dev work in my...
[Edit] Details on the plan as it stands are here, potentially using one of these heat pumps.
Looking for advice before the weather starts to warm up! I'm running multiple GPUs for dev work in my small home office, and it's pretty much equivalent to having a fan heater running all day. Right now that's actually a bonus, but it really won't be in a couple of months.
The big heat generating components are all water cooled - partly just to fit them in a sensible amount of space, and partly because I figured I'd end up with exactly this problem and being able to physically pipe the heat elsewhere (ideally outside) would probably be necessary. The bit I'm trying to figure out now is how to actually make that happen...
Ideas so far:
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Stick an air duct on the back of the radiator and hang the duct out of the window: straightforward but messy, may be counterproductive depending how hot it is outside and how well I can rig up some kind of baffle between the open window and the duct.
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Put the whole radiator outside and drill a couple of small holes in the wall for the pipes: this was my first thought, but PC radiators and fans definitely aren't rated for outdoor use, and I'm not sure where to start looking for something that would be designed for that while still being suitable to hook up to the computer waterblocks. I'm also concerned about condensation on the electronics if the coolant gets below indoor ambient temperature overnight.
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Set up some kind of actual exterior radiator (or heat pump?) outside, and use a heat exchanger between that and the PC cooling loop: seems more like the "proper" way to be doing this, but it's well outside my area of expertise and feels like there would be a lot of potentially expensive stumbling blocks. Also still has the condensation problem, I think.
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Just crank up the air conditioning: I'm not actually sure if the unit I've got has enough capacity, and it definitely seems wasteful to heat up the air and then use more energy cooling it again rather than dumping the heat directly outside, but maybe I'm wrong there!
I'm in a kind of awkward middle ground: I'm running enough hardware that this is getting to be an issue beyond what you'd get with normal end user setups, and I'm willing to put some money into fixing it (it's affecting my job and my home, after all!), but I'm self employed and nowhere close to the industrial or datacenter scale that tends to come up when searching for solutions.
Has anyone dealt with this themselves, or come across small office/homelab scale solutions that might work?
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From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers
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In 2019, scientist Steffen Olsen took a startling photo of huskies appearing to walk on water – photo quickly went viral as it revealed reality of Greenland's rapidly melting ice
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Donald Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
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The impact of sand mining - current rates predicted to be unsustainable
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Carved into rock beneath the Swedish city of Västerås, a huge man-made cave system is being used to heat local housing
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Fog harvesting could provide water for the driest cities
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In Norway, lake-harvested cocktail ice is an old business making a quiet comeback
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Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’
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Using ChatGPT consumes a 500 ml bottle of water; so what?
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Report reveals world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk to create a toxic desert
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What’s inside a manhole?
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The Cascade Mountains in the west of the United States have been hiding large quantities of fresh water
12 votes -
Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles
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Iran protests Afghanistan dam project in new water dispute
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Finland first in world to ban cargo ships from dumping untreated sewage
14 votes