Slashdot Mirror
Sandia's Smart Heat Pipe
An anonymous reader writes "Science Blog is reporting a story from Sandia National Laboratory, best known for its nuclear weapons research. "Evacuating heat is one of the great problems facing engineers as they design faster laptops by downsizing circuit sizes and stacking chips one above the other. The heat from more circuits and chips increase the likelihood of circuit failures as well as overly heated laps. "Space, military, and consumer applications, are all bumping up against a thermal barrier," says Sandia researcher Mike Rightley, whose newly patented "smart" heat pipe seems to solve the problem. The simple, self-powered mechanism transfers heat to the side edge of the computer, where air fins or a tiny fan can dissipate the unwanted energy into air."
Seems to me that its just a more advanced refridgerator. Rather than moving freon to the back, it moves methanol to the sides. No news here people.
- gtaluvit (prnc. GOT-tuh-LUV-it)
Altho its nice to have better cooling for computers, this news is just redundant.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky