Energy offloading system

Abstract

An energy offloading system is in direct electric communication with an energy generating system and dynamically receives energy from the energy generating system. The energy offloading system uses energy for high-load computations. The energy offloading system includes computers performing the high-load computations as well as servers, cooling units, and communication devices. When the energy from the energy generating system is terminated, the energy offloading system may power down these and other devices, or may switch these devices to an alternative power source. The energy offloading system may be portable.

1 . A system comprising:
 at least one computer that directly draws energy, using a first electric transmission line, from an energy generation station, wherein the energy generation station provides energy to an electric grid;   at least one cooling mechanism for cooling the at least one computer; and   at least one network communication device connected to the at least one computer;   wherein the first electric transmission line is not part of the electric grid.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one computer is running a high-computational load program. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the at least on computer is performing a method, the method comprising:
 receiving, from the energy generation station, an indication that the energy draw will be terminated;   changing the power source of the at least one cooling mechanism from the energy generation station to an alternative energy source; and   powering down at least one device.   
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one computer receives data, the data comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of: an energy transmission termination alert, an energy transmission initiation alert, a present load status, and a predicted load status. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 4 , wherein the at least one computer enters into a shutdown that saves a state of a computational device associated with the computer after receiving the energy transmission termination alert, and further wherein the shutdown does not include powering down the cooling mechanism. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 4  wherein the indication is a termination of energy delivery via the first electric transmission line. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 5  wherein the system includes a buffer storing data to be transmitted via the network communication device and the graceful shutdown includes transmitting the data in the buffer before powering down the network communication device. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 3  wherein the system further comprises:
 an energy storage device within the housing; and 
 the alternative energy source is the energy storage device. 
 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising:
 a housing cooled by the at least one cooling mechanism; and 
 wherein a CPU, a data rack, and an energy management are contained within the housing. 
 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 4  wherein the system is portable. 
     
     
         11 . A computer-implemented method to manage a termination of energy received directly from an energy generation station, the method comprising:
 receiving, from the energy generation station, an indication that energy from the energy generation station will be terminated;   as a result of receiving the indication:
 changing the power source of a cooling unit from the energy generation station to an alternative energy supply; and 
 powering down at least one computer. 
   
     
     
         12 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein the indication is termination of energy. 
     
     
         13 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein the result of receiving the indication further comprises:
 saving a state of a computer program of the at least one computer.   
     
     
         14 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 13 , wherein the result of receiving the indication further comprises:
 determining that the computation of the at least one computer should be saved prior to saving the state of the computer program of the at least one computer.   
     
     
         15 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein the result of receiving the indication further comprises:
 changing the power source of the at least one computer from the energy generation station to the alternative energy supply.   
     
     
         16 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein the result of receiving the indication further comprises:
 transmitting a completed calculation.   
     
     
         17 . The computer implemented method of  claim 16 , wherein transmitting is performed using a mobile network. 
     
     
         18 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11  further comprising:
 processing a program related to at least one of data mining, graphic rendering, machine learning, cryptocurrency mining, blockchain validation, distributed ledger processing, or distributed computation. 
 
     
     
         19 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 11 , wherein the indication is an indication of a predicated load status of the energy generation station, the predicted load status including a predicted date and time that that energy from the energy generation station will be terminated. 
     
     
         20 . A power plant energy offloading system comprising:
 an environment having a substantially enclosed space;   at least one computer disposed within the substantially enclosed space receiving, directly, energy from the power plant;   at least one cooling unit controlling the environment; and   a network communication device in electronic communication with the power plant and that receives information related to a time when the at least one computer will cease receiving energy directly from the power plant, wherein the network communicate device is electronically coupled to the at least one computer.   
     
     
         21 . The power plant energy offloading system of  claim 20 , wherein the enclosed space is defined by at least one wall coupled to a floor and a ceiling. 
     
     
         22 . The power plant energy offloading system of  claim 20 , wherein the enclosed space has a volume of about 1169, 2385, or 2660 cubic feet. 
     
     
         23 . The power plant energy offloading system of  claim 20 , further comprising a universal power supply that delivers energy to the cooling unit when the delivery of energy from the power plant to the at least one computer ceases. 
     
     
         24 . (canceled) 
     
     
         25 . (canceled) 
     
     
         26 . (canceled)