After a one-year trial period, Intel has approved the idea of cooling servers by dunking them in mineral oil. Created by Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), the liquid cooling system, known as CarnotJet, removes heat from server electronics more efficiently than traditional air-cooling methods by submerging the servers horizontally into the bath of GRC’s GreenDEF mineral oil. Heat … [Read more...]
Cell Phone Battery Bursts into Flames in Man's Back Pocket
A cell phone battery spontaneously caught fire last month at a Defcon software hacker's session - while in the back pocket of the owner's pants. The phone caught on fire, burned through the anonymous man's pocket, and fell to the floor where it left burn marks. The man was sitting when he smelled something burning and felt some heat underneath him on his seat. He stood up to … [Read more...]
Gamers can Improvise Laptop Cooling with Bottle Cap Trick
A technology website has offered a suggestion for those who seek to cool their laptops down as they heat up with gaming or video usage - without using a commercial cooling pad. Users can increase the airflow to the laptop's cooling fans by propping the laptop up on four plastic bottle caps. This allows more air flow to reach the fans, allowing the fans to work more efficiently … [Read more...]
Carbon Fiber Sheet Prototype Challenges Thermal Grease
Sony Chemical & Information Device Corp. displayed a prototype of a sheet whose thermal conductivity it claims is equivalent to that of thermal grease and has a longer life span. The sheet, known as EX20000C, uses a combination of silicon and carbon fibers to produce a thermal conductive layer that is between 0.3 and 2mm thick and has a thermal resistance rating of … [Read more...]
Thermoelectric “Heat Engine” Could Use Waste Heat to Cool Electronics
Researchers at Ohio State University studying a new magnetic effect that converts heat to electricity have discovered how to amplify it a thousand times over - a first step in making the technology more practical. The research team's ultimate goal is a low-cost and efficient solid-state engine that coverts heat to electricity. This research could enable electronic devices to … [Read more...]
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