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Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet
eaglebtc writes "Tuesday on Good Morning America, a representative from Tyco Fire & Security demonstrated an amazing new substance called Sapphire: a water-like fluid that does not get things wet. He filled a small fish tank with Sapphire and submerged a book, a laptop, and a flat panel TV. Both electronics were turned on when submerged; all three items came out completely unharmed. Click here for a slideshow of the demonstration. The official name for Sapphire is actually Novec 1230. Read about it here (PDF). Tyco sees practical applications of Sapphire in fire extinguisher systems for museums and libraries. By the same token of practicality, regular readers of Slashdot probably have something else in mind: total-immersion watercooling. Just think of the possibilities!"
[...] a total flooding clean agent, which serves as an effective halon replacement.
So, in other words, a server room full of "Sapphire" will kill us just as fast as a server room full of Halon? That and the added entertainment of watching lifeless geeks float around behind the room's glass wall? My PHB will likely be faxing Tyco a P.O. this afternoon!
Trolling is a art,
Now I don't have to rub myself with ducks before I go swimming!
Perhaps I'll use it to fake my death by submerging myself in a bath tub full of it, then dropping a hair dryer into the tub and video tape the whole thing.
Now I can give my cat a bath.
If you post it, they will read.
If they could make this available on Cape Cod, Ted Kennedy would not have to worry about explaining his drenched suits after he goes driving.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Has anyone tried it with ramen noodles? I figure, no need to drain!...
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Forget water that doesn't get stuff wet.
What we need is fire that doesn't burn stuff.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Mercury. May not be a good idea to submerge electronics in it though. And it's expensive, and toxic.
Does this mean that the liquid will be pissed out by an ice sculpture of David?
sulli
RTFJ.
"I can't believe it's not water."
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When he's underwater does he get wet or does the water get him instead? Nobody knows, particle man!
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
this stuff has a boiling point of 49.2C (120.6F). Processors burn hotter than that, how useful would it still be for cooling purposes if it were a gas?
So you pump the substance in a liquid state over the processor, the heat boils it and it turns to a gas, taking much of the heat along with it. The gas passes through a small turbine, which generates electricity to power a peltier cooler, attached to a condensing tank. That cools the gas down to liquid state again, and the liquid is fed back into the system.
I call it the Rube Goldburg 2000 cooling system. Time to file a patent!
And while their at it, have them eat 11 cups of soil and rocks. And if they curl up and die, it shall be concluded that the earth itself is not enviromentally safe. And that we should stop trying to save it.
It could be interesting for those geeks who are allergic to water...
Sure, I'll even buy it off you in exchange for the "Uranium" that my dog produces.
Hopefully this will work out better than their previous product "The Towel That Won't Get Things Dry".
"Can anyone confirm/deny this?"
Nope. They're all dead.
>"Making bits hard to copy is like making water not wet..." - Bruce Schneier
Shit, here goes another argument against DRM.
how to you clean it up? Or pick it up? Say, after it's been used to put out a fire? Or does some 'special' cloth absorb it?
You use a wetvac, no, wait....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Rats, I spilled some. Well, I'll just use a towel to...
Hold on there, this is taking longer than...
No matter, I'll just get the mop and...
Sponge? No...
Paper towels? No...
Hazmat pellets? No...
I may be here awhile.
Sometimes I worry that I'll develop Alzheimer's disease, but no one will notice.
Caffeine is more toxic than plutonium
Congratulations, you just wont he most asinine statement of the day award!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
I wouldn't want to breath this stuff any more than I want to inhale octane, or anything else.
I think it's best to inhale at least something; I find an Oxygen/Nitrogen mix works well for me YMMV.
You don't think a large glass case full of possibly colored clear liquid bubbling away like mad while you're working would look cool?
Toss in a few plastic carrots and other vegetables for decoration, maybe add a concentric spiral of red EL lighting at the bottom to look like an electric oven burner, etc?
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
Well, I'm glad we cleared that up.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
would be a good name for it
So what happens when you pour this stuff into a Teflon pan?
See, the reason that sprinkler systems are popular is that they tend to preserve human life.
So in the situation where Le Louvre has to choose between seeing the Mona Lisa destroyed by a conventional water sprinkler or seeing a few hundred filthy American tourists being cooked alive by 500 degree anoxic Sapphire steam, which do you think they'll choose?
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
... that means I finally have a market for my most promising invention: a towel that doesn't get things dry!
For once, you can be sure the adult entertainment industry did not spawn the need for this invention.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
Hard drives may be operating, i don't know if some are completly sealed off but i know some are not. What i am sure is someone using this will have a hard time reading/burning cds.
Advantages: density 1.6X water, specific heat ~1/4 water. Disadvantages: evaporates easily, expensive. Unknown: Probably not good to breath for a long time, probably won't support mold/fungus growth.
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Or you could fill your case with fish.
Given that it's NOT ACTUALLY WATER, this might damage the fish is some irreparable way.
I'm afraid you lack the soul of the geek, sir. Boiling is a fascinating process, but one that we usually don't get to observe closely because a) boiling water is hot and b) pans are usually opaque. I imagined something like your motherboard standing on end in a clear sealed tank, with bubbles rising off the stuff that produced significant amounts of heat (probably just the CPU).
Unless your comment was a pun on "cool," in which case you do have the soul of a geek . . .
Here is a possibility, we take celebrity heads, put them in saphire, so that in the future everyone can enjoy their wisdom, and entertaining abilities.
I'm thinking more of a Chemestry set environment. The fluid boils off then condenses into those cool spiral glass tubes (a glass radiator, in effect) then drips back down into the resevoir.
Space efficent? No.
Cool? You Betcha.
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
This will never work for total immersion cooling. Every single computer case I've ever seen has been FULL of holes, it will just leak out.
Plus, every time you take a CD out you'll need to towel it dry before putting it back in the case
It would be cool for bathing in though. I could take a bath without bothering to get undressed first. That would be a real timesaver.
Well, there goes my scalding hot carbon dioxide gas case mod!
wah, wah, it'll harm the electronics if I submerge them, it'll harm the fans if I turn them on in it, it'll drown the fish ...
wah wah wah, why don't I just shut my computer off and die already?
because "chemicals" like DihydrogenMonoxide is some dangerous stuff.
this might damage the fish is some irreparable way
Damage them? They'll simply die. They're fish, not a video card. "Well, we did some damage to the goldfish, had three fail and the other half dizen are intermittant" just doesn't happen.
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Oh ya.
I knew that, I just forgot..
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
"He probably heard about it from Rush"
Yes. It is buried somewhere in one of the later stanzas of their hit song "Tom Sawyer". As I recall,
"Today's tom sawyer,
He gets high on you,
And the space he invades
He gets by on you.
No, his mind is not for rent
Ted Kennedy swam in Chappaquiddick
in Cape Code, yet discontent,
He knows changes aren't permanent,
But change is....."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
If they had just put the same R&D into fire that doesn't burn, then we'd be all set!
I give men fish.
So it's a CFO?
That doesn't deplete the ozone; just your bank account, while denying you headcount...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
If you freeze this stuff does it turn into Ice-Nine?
I'll miss you, towly!
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
A liquid which doesn't get stuff wet? Next thing they'll invent is a towel which doesn't dry...
I noticed you forgot to add the phrase "and it won't kill you!"
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
They're fish, not a video card
That's ok, fish are hot-swappable. You can use the net to pull out a dead one and replace it with a new one. You could even have a hot-spare in a cup on top of the tank... i mean case.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.