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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.
Forget water that doesn't get stuff wet.
What we need is fire that doesn't burn stuff.
Mercury. May not be a good idea to submerge electronics in it though. And it's expensive, and toxic.
"I can't believe it's not water."
c++;
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.
Hopefully this will work out better than their previous product "The Towel That Won't Get Things Dry".
>"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.
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
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.
Well, there goes my scalding hot carbon dioxide gas case mod!
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.
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...
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.