Re: Product idea

On 2/12/2025 1:49 PM, john larkin wrote:

A "drop-in" baseboard heating unit with internet connection
seems the easy option.
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 Our home computers are already resistive space heaters.

Desktop computers that put out significant heat have gone the way of the dodo for most people under the age of 40 probably, those who aren't PC gamers, anyway.
I have a couple pieces of "big iron" that's partly because I'm just old-fashioned; I have some gear connected to the little cube PC in the lab and I like doing backups to my own home server as well as the cloud.
My laptop at idle doesn't heat a thing and at full tilt puts out enough to warm up one finger, maybe.

As is our gas cooking range. It puts heat into the house more
efficiently that our gas central heater, because there's no heat being
exported through an exhaust vent.
 I've considered trying to recover some heat from the vent, or from the
house drain water, but either would be a bunch of work.