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Water Cooling Computers With A Swimming Pool

guzugi writes "This is a project I have been working for several months and been hypothesizing for much longer. The basic idea is to shortcut the need for an air conditioner when cooling multiple computers. Swimming pool water is pumped into the house and through several waterblocks to effectively cool these hot machines. This greatly reduces noise cooling requirements."

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  1. heated pool by miowpurr · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would also be a cheaper way to heat your pool in the winter and make your neighbors jealous!

    1. Re:heated pool by ThePowerGorilla · · Score: 5, Funny
      They actually sell 'Swimming Pool' Heat Exchangers. These are used so you can heat a pool with your boiler, but not let the corrosive pool water destroy your home heating system.

      They have the added benefit of making it impossible to drain your whole pool into your house when a line breaks.

    2. Re:heated pool by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well I hope his webserver isn't one of those machines... Making it to the /. front page, his kids are probably boiling quite nicely now otherwise!

    3. Re:heated pool by zCyl · · Score: 2, Funny
      It would also be a cheaper way to heat your pool in the winter and make your neighbors jealous!

      Finally! A way to rationalize building a Beowulf cluster. :)
    4. Re:heated pool by Ed_1024 · · Score: 2, Funny

      The only question I have left is why SeaWorld would need a laser in first place.

      Sharks!

  2. noise cooling requirements? by Mr+Chund+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, someone is gonna have to fill me in. How does one cool noise?

    1. Re:noise cooling requirements? by Otto-Marrakech · · Score: 5, Funny

      Two words, Miles Davis.

  3. Re:"Yer In" Trouble! by terrahertz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, do not underestimate the power of a child's full bladder.

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  4. Re:Pool water? by Batou · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... not to mention peeing in the pool ...

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  5. Re:Must have been in the Navy by wesborgmandvm · · Score: 2, Funny
    Did this guy say he lives in California?

    he's cooling his computer with his pool, He MUST BE from California :)

  6. Re:Newsflash: not all pools use chlorine by Hadlock · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should talk to armadillo airspace. They were looking for a reliable supply of 90%+ Supply of Hydrogen Peroxide last year.

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  7. Re:"Yer In" Trouble! by Emetophobe · · Score: 3, Funny
    Dude, do not underestimate the power of a child's full bladder.
    Who said anything about a child?
  8. Re:Turn it off. by nick_davison · · Score: 2, Funny

    The chlorine attacks iron even in ally form.

    And you should see what it does to it in enemy form!

  9. One Upmanship by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    You say you're cooling your computer with a swimming pool. I laugh at you. My heat sink is the PACIFIC OCEAN

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  10. The Feeter (1/3 of a meter). by HornWumpus · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's just too useful a measure to abandon.

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