I came across this project to heat Stockholm Central Station using body heat. My background in designing thermal systems for PARAM Supercomputers and National Param Supercomputing Facility and the related research that time; led me to ponder on this new development.
The current upsurge in using computers and related IT products has given rise heat management issue. Use of computers per head has increased in the last few years tremendously. Data centers are huge glass house infrastructures; changing Weber's Iron Cage to Glass Cage.
The idea of selling this excess heat generated by systems to others for heating purpose is a good idea, at least to conserve energy. The shopping mall built in 2001 in an old Telegraph building in Norway.The designers of the new mall worked out a plan to connect their heat pump system to the data center of a near by Telco facility. During the Winter, the data center heats the mall, and during the cooling season, the mall uses the heat generated by the server room to preheat a local hotel's sanitary (showers, sinks) water system.What is interesting about this system, is not just the logical efficiency, but that the entity in the best position to profit is the mall that installed the heat pump and exchanger system that allows the system to operate; Selling Heat !!!
At least that leads me to believe that the glass cage is porous....
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