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New Chip-cooling Technology

Posted by samzenpus on from the cool-off dept.

BillOfThePecosKind writes "Researchers have demonstrated a new technology using tiny "ionic wind engines" that might dramatically improve computer chip cooling, possibly addressing a looming threat to future advances in computers and electronics. Purdue researchers funded by Intel have improved the "heat-transfer coefficient" by some 250%. I never liked water cooled systems, and this sounds promising. However I wonder how much ozone one of these things produces."

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  1. Ozone production FTW by SamP2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I wonder how much ozone one of these things produces."

    Produces? Hey, let's make a ton of these and solve the ozone hole problem forever!

    1. Re:Ozone production FTW by Tatisimo · · Score: 3, Funny

      If we dig down some, the ground level ozone we're making will be above us, therefore, making a new, lower ozone layer. Time to move underground, my fellow human beings!

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    2. Re:Ozone production FTW by eggnoglatte · · Score: 4, Funny

      What the heck is "o-zone"? Ozone is a molecule, not some kind of atmospheric zone; that would be the ozone layer, i.e. the atmospheric layer with a high natural concentration of ... wait for it ... ozone.

    3. Re:Ozone production FTW by bigdavesmith · · Score: 2, Funny

      Slashdot is not the proper place for a comprehensive discussion of the o-zone.

      Those of you over 18 might want to check out this clip though, if you're not sure exactly what the o-zone is.

    4. Re:Ozone production FTW by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think we'd need a giant space truck, not a series of tubes. Space ain't the place to go waving internets around.

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    5. Re:Ozone production FTW by FST777 · · Score: 4, Funny

      everyone start digging
      You must be new here...
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  2. If I don't, someone else will.... by ZeroFactorial · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool!

  3. Ironic wind? by Omnifarious · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean now that our computers may have yet another thing that can go wrong? They might break wind.

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  4. Re:Power by billster0808 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Molecules have their own unions now? Next thing you know they'll be asking for health coverage!

  5. Fact catches fiction by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Science fiction movies have been showing us for years that future computers spew fountains of sparks at the slightest disturbance. And soon they will.

  6. Re:High Altitude Airships FTW by Jotaigna · · Score: 2, Funny

    that would be like getting a woolen jumper big enough and a comb long enough to power your computer with static electricity.

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  7. Re:Power by GaryOlson · · Score: 2, Funny

    He used to be a stutterer; and apparently he still has problems with big words. This is not a tech support problem; we have enough other real work to do.

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