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New Semiconductor Coolers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-a-lotta-cooling dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "A new thermoelectric material is 2.4X as efficient as best existing materials. The new solid state heat pumps can provide 700 watts of cooling (nearly one horsepower) with just one square centimeter. These new materials have the potential to replace current heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and mechanical heat pumps. You can also read an article in nature."

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  1. In one word... by codeButcher · · Score: 4, Funny

    cool!

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  2. Which, of course. by Karen_Frito · · Score: 2, Funny

    A new thermoelectric material is 2.4X as efficient as best existing materials. The new solid state heat pumps can provide 700 watts of cooling (nearly one horsepower) with just one square centimeter. These new materials have the potential to replace current heat sinks, thermoelectric generators and mechanical heat pumps. Just means more overclocking potential. ;) Hrm. One superconductor, plus a heat sink the size of my car, plus that liquid nitrogen pump, and I might just get Win2k to load in under a minute. Wow.

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  3. Boon for Intel by jason99si · · Score: 2, Funny

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
    Craig Barrett, 61, Pres, CEO of Intel Corporation was quoted today in a fake press release as saying,

    "This is fantastic! With this new thermoelectric material that is 2.4X as efficient as the best existing materials, we can create processors which run 2.4X as hot! Not only that, but we can repackage all those old Celeron 300a's as Pentium 5's and overclock them 2.4X as much! Lookout AMD, here we come!
  4. When cooling fails by jxqvg · · Score: 5, Funny

    These things are going to get so efficient and semiconductors running so hot that when one of them fails the whole thing will go critical mass. Your box won't just fail, it'll burst into flames and melt into a useless bubbling pool of metal and plastic!

  5. Re:misleading headline - this GENERATES power by Bistromat · · Score: 3, Funny

    This material can GENERATE 700 watts of electricity from only one square cm. (specifically under a 58 degree F tempature gradient).

    there's not enough energy difference in a 58-degree gradient to account for 700W per cc. if this were true, i could power Boston by replacing my oven's door with this stuff & baking a batch of brownies.*


    i exaggerate, but the energy figure given is still ridiculously large.

  6. Re:What I am wondering by Tingler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tingler- Dictionary-carrying English speaker. I have no tolerance for poor spelling.