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The 13 pages that link to Waste heat, each with the reason it gives.

• Energy efficiencyRelated: Reducing heat losses is a common route to providing the same service with less input energy.

• District heatingRelated: Factories, data centers, and power plants can feed otherwise unused heat into a network.

• Thermal efficiencyRelated: Heat rejected to the surroundings is the main energy portion that limits thermal efficiency.

• Data centerRelated: Servers release heat that cooling systems must remove or can sometimes reuse.

• Search for extraterrestrial intelligenceRelated: Large-scale energy use could produce detectable infrared excess from a distant civilization.

• TechnosignatureRelated: Large-scale technological activity could produce detectable infrared waste heat.

• Freeman DysonRelated: Dyson argued that large energy-consuming civilizations could be detectable through infrared waste heat.

• Thermodynamic efficiencyRelated: Unconverted input energy often leaves a device as rejected heat.

• Dyson sphereRelated: Any civilization using captured starlight must ultimately dispose of much of it as heat.

• By-productRelated: It is an energetic by-product of engines, appliances, and industrial processes.

• Energy conversion efficiencyRelated: It is a common destination for input energy that does not serve the chosen purpose.