Gardtec Incorporated’s Green Fan Cord, a thermostatically controlled fan cord, allows AC fans to turn on/off as system ambient temperature calls for additional cooling. The fan cord will turn on cooling fans as ambient temperatures reach the upper 80s Fahrenheit, then turn off cooling fans as temperatures return to the lower 80s. Learn more from Gardtec Incorporated. … [Read more...]
Department of Energy announces $100 million for innovative research projects
At the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create new jobs. Of the three technology focus areas destined to receive funding, one of interest to ElectronicsCooling readers involves … [Read more...]
Back to the Future with a Liquid Cooled Supercomputer
Introduction: Evolution of Air and Water Cooling for Electronic Systems Since the development of the first electronic digital computers in the 1940s, efficient removal of heat has played a key role in insuring the reliable operation of successive generations of computers. In many instances the trend toward higher circuit packaging density to provide reductions in circuit delay … [Read more...]
Lowering a Notebook CPU Temperature Using a Dual-Tunnel Blower
Figure 1. Side by side comparison of blower technologies. Introduction Notebook computers on the market today may be classified in three categories. In the first category are the super slim and powerful notebooks such as the ThinkPad X300. In the second are the slim and light netbooks such as the ASUS Eee PC, and in the third are the high-end mobile workstations for … [Read more...]
Synthetic jets for forced air cooling of electronics
Introduction As increasing functionality is packaged into ever-shrinking electronics, cooling requirements rise exponentially. While there have been continued advances in high heat flux technologies [1], commercial, consumer-oriented systems continue to focus on aircooling for reasons of reliability, acoustics, cost and portability [2]. In order to support the increasing power … [Read more...]
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