Waste heat to electricity

[Phil Shapiro]

  I meant to explain in my last email that as the energy needs of computers goes down

(as with the $9 Linux computer coming out next year), then there is a natural interest in

figuring out how to power these devices using even more efficient power sources. 

   For example, if Google provides free (or very low cost) internet to the country of Sri Lanka

(via Project Loon), then the $9 Linux computer becomes an attractive eductional tool for

schools. And if the school doesn't have electricity, than a waste heat to electricity process 

can be the final piece in the puzzle of bringing the resources of the internet to a remote school.

          Then the question becomes to figure out sources of waste heat -- hopefully renewal and

ecological sources of waste heat.

                  phil
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