Morlock Elloi on Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:03:44 +0200 (CEST)


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: <nettime> In Praise of Cash (or just another luddite nationalist deth spell for 

It happened, 0.5kW, by the French of all peoples:

https://www.qarnot.com/qrad/


Have you ever noticed that your personal computer was producing heat
while processing tasks? At Qarnot, we decided to take advantage of
this waste heat to deliver it directly to buildings. Qarnot designed
the Q.rad, the first computing heater embedding microprocessors as a
heat source and connected to the Internet.
This has a potential to re-de-centralize Bitcoin. Not this particular company, but the concept itself. 




On 4 Mar 2017, at 13:18, t byfield wrote:

On 3 Mar 2017, at 21:56, Morlock Elloi wrote:

product note to self: consumer electric heater that mints


This is GREAT. I don't mean someone-should-do-it great, though — it's more like
> chindogu, 'useless Japanese inventions' raised to an art form: a baby's onesie 
with a dust-mop front, so your infant can clean the house while s/he crawls around,
> or a pair of chopsticks with a fan attached to cool off your ramen between the bowl 
> and your mouth. Or this piece of accidental chindogu, a bobblehead-esque
> solar-powered wind turbine executive desk toy:

#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime>  is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org
#  @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: