alt Hacker NewsWaste heat from power plants isn’t always useful because it is low grade heat… but it is still much, much, much better than the 35-60C water you could get from a data center.
Waste heat from power plants isn’t always useful because it is low grade heat… but it is still much, much, much better than the 35-60C water you could get from a data center.
That is what you use the heat pumps for, to transform what you call "low-grade heat" to... "higher-grade heat"?
The COP for a heat pump doing such a transformation can be very high, i.e. for a relatively low power input you get a lot of gain.