Water without... water
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:48 pm
> http://exn.ca/video/?video=exn20050209-waterless.asx
Looks pretty cool...
posting sytle (c) Freakaloin
Looks pretty cool...
posting sytle (c) Freakaloin
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:54 pm
Thats mad!!!
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:55 pm
OLD.
Ten years ago there was an infomercial for a car polish. The active ingredient was 'Fomblin A' (might have spelled it wrong). It's a die-electric fluid allowing you to do the same things.
They put all kinds of electronics in tubs of Fomblin to show how mystical it was. rofle.
I always thought it would be cool to use this fuild as a free roaming cooling system in a server/PC system. Just have the entire device submerged with fans to move the fluid around providing the cooling. Meh.
Ten years ago there was an infomercial for a car polish. The active ingredient was 'Fomblin A' (might have spelled it wrong). It's a die-electric fluid allowing you to do the same things.
They put all kinds of electronics in tubs of Fomblin to show how mystical it was. rofle.
I always thought it would be cool to use this fuild as a free roaming cooling system in a server/PC system. Just have the entire device submerged with fans to move the fluid around providing the cooling. Meh.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:56 pm
Yeah I was talking about that about a year ago.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:56 pm
My first concern was with the environmental effects of yet another nasty chemical, but he said it breaks down in five days. Neat stuff.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:00 pm
I use Fomblin oil in my high-vacuum pumps at work. Never seen it used as a coolant, but the Perfluoroalkylpolyether(PFPE) family is pretty large. We have another chemical here called fluorinert that is a non-aqueous dielectric fluid that would works great for cooling electronics. The problem is that it's rather expensive and nasty.Cool Blue wrote:OLD.
Ten years ago there was an infomercial for a car polish. The active ingredient was 'Fomblin A' (might have spelled it wrong). It's a die-electric fluid allowing you to do the same things.
They put all kinds of electronics in tubs of Fomblin to show how mystical it was. rofle.
I always thought it would be cool to use this fuild as a free roaming cooling system in a server/PC system. Just have the entire device submerged with fans to move the fluid around providing the cooling. Meh.
That's the difference between PFPEs and what's in the video clip.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:03 pm
wow that's really cool.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:26 pm
Denz wrote:wow that's really cool.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:50 pm
some crazy shit
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:51 pm
$40 a square foot? thats ridiculous...
for small archive rooms, ok.. but i couldnt imagine it being used for an entire museum or library at that cost.
for small archive rooms, ok.. but i couldnt imagine it being used for an entire museum or library at that cost.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:05 pm
imagine that, have a bath with no towels
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:25 pm
Awesome! 
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:31 pm
i'll buy some of that, and use it for water cooling.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:39 pm
It does say that it takes away the heat from a fire...you might be onto something amidy...AmIdYfReAk wrote:i'll buy some of that, and use it for water cooling.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:45 pm
Acutally, i am only Saying somethign that has allready been done.. A few times to date.. infact, the most popular one was done on G4Tech TV.. on the *shutter* Screensavers.
they built a computer in a fishtank, add'd this shit ( $80-100USD a GAL i might add ) into the tank, and used a Submerged Pump with a small rad to cool the liquid..
it was actually pritty interesting, the cpu was running pritty cool ( considering all of the thing was being cooled, not just the Die )
anyway
they built a computer in a fishtank, add'd this shit ( $80-100USD a GAL i might add ) into the tank, and used a Submerged Pump with a small rad to cool the liquid..
it was actually pritty interesting, the cpu was running pritty cool ( considering all of the thing was being cooled, not just the Die )
anyway
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:05 am
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.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:47 am
It's a perfluorinated ketone, says so just a bit into the clip.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:57 am
Didn't watch the clip, can't watch clips at work. 
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:23 am
be thankful you can browse the 'net.Kracus wrote:Didn't watch the clip, can't watch clips at work.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:51 am
you had no idea what you were talking about though, but yea, you were prolly talking about it a year ago :icon14:Kracus wrote:Yeah I was talking about that about a year ago.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:21 am
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: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.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:58 am
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.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:05 pm
someone get a link to a clip please
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:41 pm
Damn, that sucks. So they have to replace the non-water in the sprinkler system tanks occasionally then, huh?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.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:44 pm
Also, can you drink this stuff? :icon6:
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