Water without... water

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:52 pm

Transient wrote:
Nightshade wrote:It's hard to eliminate the evaporation. The application I have for fluorinert is sealed fairly well, but it still evaporates. Getting a hermetic seal on a PC case would be rather difficult, and I wouldn't trust something that evaporates as fast as that stuff does.
Damn, that sucks. So they have to replace the non-water in the sprinkler system tanks occasionally then, huh?

Sprinkler system tanks? Our system uses nozzles fed by city water, run throughout the building. Non-aqueous fire suppression agents in commercial buildings are usually CO2 or some other gaseous material.

Post by **Transient** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:17 pm

Well in the video the guy mentioned this being used in a mist form as a fire suppression system. The mist was coming out of a sprinkler on the ceiling. Not sure if you saw the video, but I assumed that they'd be storing it somewhere in the building in that case.

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:38 pm

Ohh, I see. I thought you were talking about something else. I did see that system in the clip. I would say that a tank of that type would be easier to seal completely, but yes, I'd say they'd need to top it off regularly. Did you see how fast taht fluid was evaporating when he was pouring it on the monitor?

Post by **Transient** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:27 pm

It was kind of eerie, yes. As soon as he pulled it out, it seemed to be already completely dry like it was never in a liquid. I don't remember seeing drops fall off it, either. That's some funky shit. Hard to believe, really.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:31 pm

Transient wrote:Hard to believe, really.

No, not really. Though it seems to be an impressive fire supressant.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:44 pm

Transient wrote:Also, can you drink this stuff? :icon6:

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I doubt it, but Ketone is a key ingredient in making XTC.

This is what intruiges me about this stuff because it's illegal to be in posession of ketone so I'm curious how they would regulate it. Given the right tools it might be possible to extract the ketone from that liquid. (if you can call it that)

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:44 pm

Transient wrote:
Kracus wrote:I could see some useful applications in cooling if it didn't evaporate so fast. I think it's somekind of ketone if I'm not mistaken, or ketone is one of the key ingredients.
Can't you prevent it from evaporating by sealing it? It would also be ideal to submerge a PC in this to remove the dust problem. :icon14:

you wanker, i allready said it was done.. look around the Net.. people made an air tight Fishtank case and out there hole computer in there minus the input devices ( Screen, keyboard, mouse, Dvd-rom ) and gave er.

Post by **dnoyc** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:29 pm

cray supercomputers did that way before nerds started using it for overclocking.

Post by **Transient** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:18 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:
Transient wrote:
Kracus wrote:I could see some useful applications in cooling if it didn't evaporate so fast. I think it's somekind of ketone if I'm not mistaken, or ketone is one of the key ingredients.
Can't you prevent it from evaporating by sealing it? It would also be ideal to submerge a PC in this to remove the dust problem. :icon14:
you wanker, i allready said it was done.. look around the Net.. people made an air tight Fishtank case and out there hole computer in there minus the input devices ( Screen, keyboard, mouse, Dvd-rom ) and gave er.

Oh yeah, I remember that casemod now. I always thought the guts were behind a pane of glass or something, as the liquid wasn't discussed.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:20 pm

Yeah me too... I remember that casemod... I think he might have even had fish in it.