Sustainable Heating with Compute Power
Developing a dual-purpose supercomputer that serves as both a heating system and a decentralized cloud computing platform, aiming for cost-efficiency and environmental sustainability.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 03:21 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
There is no information provided on the start date of the project; therefore, it's unclear whether the project meets the 3-month age requirement.
The Grant must be primarily focused on climate solutions (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions.
The project aims to reduce global energy-related CO2 emissions by using compute power for heating, which is directly related to climate solutions and intended to reduce GHGs.
Grantees who received funding in previous rounds should report on project progress since GR15 or the Alpha round. We understand that some projects may have less progress given the timing of Alpha round disbursements. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing.
The provided information does not indicate whether the project has received funding in previous rounds, therefore it is unclear if they are required to report on the progress.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal should indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its goals, and include a rough timeline for the project overall.
As it is not clear whether the project is a returning grantee, it cannot be determined if they have met the requirement to update their proposal accordingly.
There is a general expectation that projects are within the “realm of viability”. Even if a project may be at a very early stage, it still must seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
The project's aim to harness the waste heat from computing for space heating appears to be a credible solution with potential viability. The project description implies genuine intention to develop the system and it is not considered an impossibility within the scope of web3 technology and climate solutions.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
There is no evidence provided in the project description to suggest that the project founders are involved in encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.