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MSI Develops a Heat-Driven Cooler

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-not-easy-being-green dept.

V!NCENT tips us to a write-up about an addition to MSI's Ecolution motherboard which harvests heat from the chipset to power a fan. The device is based on a Stirling engine. The heat from the chipset expands a trapped gas, which pushes against a piston to generate power. The article contains a YouTube video of how the device works. According to MSI, the device has 70% efficiency.

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  1. "They can only copy us..." by ibsteve2u · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How many times have I heard rather short-sighted types say things like the Chinese/Japanese/Indians/whoever only copy us?

    This is something we should have been looking at years ago - but no doubt someone other than we Americans will get this technology's price point down to practicality before any of our fearless CEOs get up off the R&D bucks that they fear will come straight outta their quarter to a half billion dollar annual compensation packages...

    --
    Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"