Heat energy capture and storage systems

A method of capturing energy, the method comprising the steps of:

• receiving, at a central processing platform, a processing job request;
• monitoring, at the central processing platform, a status of one or more computing nodes connected to the platform;
• in response to the status of the one or more computing nodes connected to the platform and the processing job request, creating a cluster comprising one or more of the computing modes that have indicated an available status;
• transmitting from the central processing platform to a job queue, information about the processing job and information about the created cluster;
• transmitting the information about the processing job and the information about the created cluster, from the job queue to a third Application Programming Interface (API) component;
• distributing from the third API component to the one or more computing nodes in the created cluster the information about the processing job and the information about the created cluster;
• executing, at the one or more computing nodes in the created cluster, the processing job;
• and
• outputting heat at the one or more computing nodes, wherein each of the computing nodes are connected to a heating system, the heating system being installed at a respective premise, and wherein the available status at the one or more computing nodes is an indication of a demand for heat at the respective heating system.