What is digital heat?
Northeast Flow has developed a new and innovative method of heat production for buildings. We call this innovation ‘digital heat’. In this article we aim to answer some of the questions we often hear from potential clients or partners in what is ‘digital heat’ and how can they compare it to other forms of heating.
What is 'digital heat'?
The easy answer is that digital heat is just like any form of heat. Heat is heat after all. But the production method is what makes digital heat unique. Digital heat uses a computer processor, rather than say a boiler, to warm up the water that is used in a building’s heating system. We at Northeast Flow use these processors to build ‘digital heat’ servers that are optimised for producing and capturing heat. We install our digital heat servers then directly to our heating clients location, whether that is a residential, business or industrial building and provide our clients a discount on the kilowatt hour price of the heat produced.
Digital heat = making use of a byproduct
Digital heat begins with running the processors to perform computational tasks. And as the processors do these, they heat up. This is just like your laptop or desktop computer might heat up if you run an especially heavy program on it. Processors actually turn all consumed electricity into heat as a byproduct of running them.
We at Northeast Flow run our processors at specific rates to purposefully generate heat. But all this is not done just to generate heat either. We take this computational power that the processors generate and use it. Currently this computation is used in blockchain applications to generate an income. In the future the computation power could be used towards other things as well, such as training AI models, running complex simulations or processing large amounts of data.
And we at Northeast Flow have designed our solution so that it is first and foremost a heating solution. Our servers only generate heat when heat is needed. And since the servers computational power is used to generate an income, we can offer the heat for our customers at a cheaper price than what the electricity used to generate it costs.
What kind of savings can digital heat help achieve?
All cases are unique and depend on a number of factors such as what your heating method is currently, how large is the heated space etc. But overall we can help our customers save upwards from 10%-15% on monthly heating bill expenses. And as we provide our machinery to our customers without upfront costs, this makes the overall decision to try digital heat easy.
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