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TheSpiceIsLifetoday at 7:23 AM2 repliesview on HN

You can say that about any waste heat.

In really, it’s not convenient to move all waste heat to where it’s more needed.


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m4rtinktoday at 10:48 AM

Modern industrial scale insulated hot water district heating systems can do dozens of kilometers with the water cooling down only by a degree Celsius.

tremontoday at 9:24 AM

It's always more convenient to ignore externalities. That doesn't mean we should be okay with only bottom-of-the-barrel solutions.