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Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests
joelgrimes writes "A company called Cool Chips plc is showing off a cooling device that claims unbelievable efficiencies using what they call 'quantum mechanical electron tunneling'. A choice quote from their press release: "A panel of Cool Chips one inch square will provide enough cooling for a refrigerator; a panel about two inches square will have the capacity to provide the air conditioning for a living room". They also mention using them to cool microprocessors. I used to think this company was nuts, but Boeing is making me think twice. Oh, and by the way, they work in reverse to make electricity from heat. Should I sell my baseball cards and buy their stock now, or can an army of slashdotters poke holes in their claims?" Fascinating stuff. Makes peltier coolers look pretty old school. In the press release they claim up to 80% efficiency, compared to 5-8% for peltier coolers and 50% for conventional refrigeration. I will say the cool chips corporate logo is baffling, though.
You're the type of person that strengthens the widespread prejudice amongst Europeans about Americans being arrogant, selfish, narcistic, polluting, brute and materialistic airheads with no culture at all.
But I'm sure most Americans are NOT like you.
And by the way, next time you vote for Bush, make sure you punch the hole all the way trough - moron.
"Most likely we are not having any effect at all"
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Where the HELL did you pull that from?
You can it with the naked eye!
If you take a look around London, which has *many* buildings 100-200 years old, you can see the damange caused by Acid rain. There are even stuctures in London over 1500 years old (unlike in the US!)
Typical boody Americans think that anything built pre 1950's is old (I even heard one couple in New York saying "You know that church by Central Park, that building is so old, it's amazing!" and the damn thing was only 70 years old - I grew up in a *house* that was older than that!).
These buidlings have not sustained any damange in the previous hundred years, but because of environmental changes they have been erroded very badly in recent years.
This has happened across the globe in Italy, Greece and Germany. This is a direct result of the industrialisation of the last 100 years. It's a big problem and were tackling it here in Europe, by cutting down the amount of pollutants we use, forceably, in law.
Rain is more Acidic and Sea Levels are rising - these are not conjecture, but mesurable and factual. The hole in the Ozone layer is also a recent event.
So: A gap in the Ozone layer, Acid rain and sea levels rising.
The first two are, beyond all reasonable doubt (based on a weath of information avalible), caused by us, the second is still open to debate.
But what do you think the chances are they are related? The evidence is pretty compeling.
*I'm* a sceptic and YOUR irrational unwillingness to look that facts is scary.
Do you know ANYTHING about the topic at hand, or are you just a typically uninformed asshole?
If you check the ticker symbol refrenced in the Boing Press release (BOREF). You will find that the company is BOREALIS EXPL LTD this company has been around for a while and last time they were trying to sell shares in an Iorn Mine. Eventually It was found out that they had stoled the Iorn Mine from Debeer's and did not actually own anything. Looks more like cold fusion... -Abbott