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  1. Re:Air Conditioning... by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 1 · on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors

    What you want is Cool Chips at 55% carnot efficiency.

    I've already figured out how to use these to make 1000+mpg cars. They don't even have viable production yield yet. This is a keystone technology that I can personally put to a hell of a lot of use making a ton of shit that doesn't exist now (some could but would be expensive and impractical; some is physically impossible to substitute a compressor for).

  2. Re:LED, next gen cooling device ? by The+Mighty+Buzzard · · Score: 1 · on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100%

    You're probably thinking of this: http://www.coolchips.gi/

    They haven't posted any news in over a year and their stock's currently trading at 11 cents a share, down from >$2.

  3. Re:Prior Art by syukton · · Score: 1 · on Company Claims New Chip Converts Heat To Electricity

    I thought that website looked familiar to this one: http://www.coolchips.gi/

    Switch back and forth between the two, it's kind of spooky. I realize that they're probably the same company but the logo, the layout, everything is the same. It stands to reason though that a chip that can be used for extremely efficient cooling could be used in reverse for extremely efficient power generation.

  4. Re:Similar work been done before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Company Claims New Chip Converts Heat To Electricity

    They're still there - http://www.coolchips.gi/ - and they hold some patents on the process. They seem to perpetually be about 100 days away from shipping product - have been for years.

    Their parent company http://borealis.com/ has lots of technologies that are equally world-changing, and almost equally vaporous.

  5. Quantum Mechanical Electron Tunneling ? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 2, Interesting · on On-CPU Peltiers From AMD?



    According to an old Slashdot article a British company called Cool Chip Plc has something that uses the "Quantum Mechanical Electron Tunneling" to achive "unbelievable cooling efficiencies".

    According to the Press Release it is claimed that the device is so good that "a panel about two inches square will have the capacity to provide the air conditioning for a living room" !

    In comparison, according to Cool Chips's press release, most existing cooling systems use compressors and environment-damaging fluids and are 40-50% efficient. Smaller thermoelectric cooling devices, despite more than $1 billion spent on research, are only 8% efficient. Cool Chips, on the other hand, are projected to operate at 70-80% of the maximum theoretical efficiency (Carnot) for cooling.

    I am not affliated with "coolchips" in any way, just in case you wonder.

  6. Coolchips by Anztac · · Score: 1 · on Cooling the Server Room?

    If only these were popular...

  7. CoolChips FAQ by Polaris · · Score: 1 · on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests

    Looks like the company has been reading Slashdot, and has posted replies to a lot of the questions raised here.

  8. Oy! by bio-droid · · Score: 2, Informative · on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests
    Ack -- I can't stand the noise any longer! Those who dispute the physical viability of cooling via quantum tunneling, please see Hishinuma et al, Applied Physics Letters, 23 April, 2001. The CoolChips folks claim (see the slide show) to have beaten the Stanford group by several years, but CoolChips also relies upon details the Hishinuma paper for justification. As for the various concerns voiced about large electrostatic forces between the cathode and anode, there are no such forces because there is no charge imbalance. When an electron tunnels across the gap it is replaced. Its a circuit. The physical principle behind the device is quite sound. The materials science and device engineering are, of course, another matter entirely. I wish them luck, but I am not yet any more likely to invest than the rest of you.

    - Rob

  9. The Logo by four12 · · Score: 1 · on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests
    According to the Cool Chips press release, Cool Chips is a majority-owned subsidiary of Borealis Exploration Limited.

    "Borealis" refers to the Arctic regions of the world. The "dolphin" is actually a Beluga whale (no dorsal fin, funny shaped head). Belugas are native to the cold waters of the Arctic and near-Arctic. You see where I am going with this?