I do not want to fight the engineers today. There’s a lot of ways to fuck around with data storage, it’s just immeasurably cursed, I mean you could scan a bunch of stuff and plunk it on an unpowered ssd and shove it under the bed for like no energy cost. But the example there has 1883 BTUs per hour, and the extra cool thing is that those thermal units turn a little bit of electricity into heat in your server room, which you then have to cool, to say nothing of the heat gain added to the room by the people working in it, which might be 400-500 BTUs/hr. I guess you can fiddle with the math per server yourself. Okay so this 1.5TB Intel server system from a couple of years ago burns 2812 BTUs per hour. Fuck us that is a lot of folks, 2020-2022. Can we burn human bodies in order to preserve the disembodied souls of more fortunate humans? Of course reasonable men would never consider that kind of sacrifice. Superb! What else can we do with this new energy stream? Can we burn discarded paper in order to cover the energy costs of running the servers that hold digitized versions of the paper? You insane man, you alchemist, how could this be? You fucking wizard. And one burned box of weeded archival material, at thirty pounds, gets pretty close to covering the BTUs for one square foot of archival real estate turned to hydrochar that might cover two years of HVAC for that same square foot. So one burned discarded book gets the energy necessary to run HVAC for one square foot of library for 12 days a book added to a wastestream feed for hydrochar could contribute one foot of hvac for 24, maybe.
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And, at least the way I read the schematic on that page, the input of energy to make the char out of our municipal waste slurry is about 1/5th the energy output, so let’s put the char down for between 590 BTU/lb.įantastic, this looks like free energy! Now what can we do with all these BTUs? Devoted readers will remember that our liberry and archive storage environments probably run at the high end of buildings’ HVAC usage: 200,000 BTUs per square foot per year, 548 BTUs per square foot per day.
So, better than mixed paper, and not as good as coal, which gives us 12,900 to 15,000 BTUs per pound. Depending on its source, hydrochar gives us energy in the range of 6500-12900 BTUs per pound. You can maybe turn your paper into hydrochar feedstock, kind of like when the Stasi began mass-dumping their wetted, shredded files from the Papierwolf into the sewers of Berlin. Mixed paper when burned delivers 6447 BTUs per pound, according to this source.
I think we can burn down little a the archives, as a treat. I’m not totally sure, but I mean to find a justification for burning down the archives, because they have great potential value to the soldier. Alas, depending on how you cut it, burning paper and recycling it have equivalent energy effects. Some dude in Slate magazine was still relying on that study in 2008. Way back in 1996 an industry group put out a paper that concluded, Recycling versus incineration, whomst really can say. These are not technically-speaking library discards
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