While I don't know the specific of this instance, it generally requires that the local utility has an existing remote heating network installed. And those have been popping up a lot (at least in Europe) in the last decade.

If you are looking for a simple, but nice animation of the process, check out Infomaniak's press-release (the animation is half-way down the page) https://news.infomaniak.com/en...
They have been operating a datacenter that does just that since the start of the year. It was actually built within a residential area just for this purpose.

Well I'm certainly no astrophysicist or even the armchair version. But it seems to me that wind levels on Mars can be quite energetic (relatively speaking).
At least enough to throw up some dust and act as dust devils.

These have also been postulated to be on of the reason why the solar panels seemed to get cleaned from time to time for no apparent reason.

Murphy(c)

5 Years on an other planet, think about it.
Imagine the amount of food, water, O2 and energy that would have been required if they had sent humans instead of machines.

Never mind the fact that they extended the original mission by more than 2000% and the fact that they never needed resupply missions.

When you read the mission reports for the ISS and see that they need a two man crew just to keep stuff from breaking too badly, it's hard to imagine the size of the crew that would be needed for a 5 year mission to Mars.

Yet one of the two (ISS vs Mars rovers), has a budget at least one order of magnitude larger than the other and has yet to produce any real science (unless teeing off a gold plated golf ball from the ISS is ones idea of science)

Murphy(c)

So what?

I don't understand why this is so... new technology... so breath taking
Google Earth, Mandelbrot fractals, ... this technology just reuse old stuff and tell us that with Silverthing you will be able to use this wonderful technology...

In Java, Javascript, flash, ... you can do that too.

So, what...?

Yes, but no.
Check out this Wikipedia entry on octane calculations between the US and Europe

Here's snippet:
It should be noted that this higher rating seen in Europe is an artifact of a different underlying measuring procedure[...]Because of the 8 to 10 point difference noted above, this means that the octane in the United States will be about 4 to 5 points lower than the same fuel elsewhere

So cars in Europe do not in fact "require premium gasoline".

Murphy(c)

I know I digress a bit, but sometimes an open-source solution is not the choice for everyone. A lot of clients I talk to have no technical knowledge, and want a CMS to be able to update the website easily. They have no idea how to install it or to maintain it. Some of them prefer "buying" a product, than buying lots of services.

Then again, it really depends on the demographic. If it's a student putting up a website and he has all the time in the world, I guess an open source CMS is the preferred solution.

Of course, I'm biased, I work for this CMS vendor :) But it has a license you can pay in cash or code