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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. Good thing it is 70% efficient by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    otherwise all that waste heat would be wasted.

  2. Pff by illegibledotorg · · Score: 5, Funny

    MSI just threw this together so that their lead engineer could finish his bitchin' Steampunk case mod.

  3. So ... by LordKaT · · Score: 5, Funny

    It has to heat itself to ... cool ... itself? Goddamnit, I hate recursion.

  4. Re:Buh? by billcopc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Large scale practical sterling engines use a source of coolness

    That's why every MSI board will be sold with a life-size poster of The Fonz.

    --
    -Billco, Fnarg.com
  5. Re:Headline misleading by value_added · · Score: 4, Funny

    It reduces the temperature of the chip. I would call that a cooler.

    Using a general term when a more specific one would be more appropriate and more meaningful is ... well, do I really need to spell it out? Or does referring to the common house fly as an anthropod, and your coworkers as invertebrates have any value?

    The OP was correct. They're plastic fans. No more, no less. And if Wikipedia is any indication of common or appropriate usage, a cooler is most likely where you'll find fermented malted barley refreshments.

    Hell, while I'm at it, there's no such thing as soy milk. it's SOY JUICE! Soybeans don't have and will never have teats.

    Ok, I feel better.

  6. Well... by VON-MAN · · Score: 2, Funny

    you should know.

  7. Re:Headline misleading by r3g3x · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, while I'm at it, there's no such thing as soy milk. it's SOY JUICE! Soybeans don't have and will never have teats. You insensitive clod! I happen to come from a long line of proud soybean milkers! My family has been raising and milking herds of soybeans for several generations. We have come to endure the regular taunts from from our "real" milk neighbors, but this kind of slander on slashdot is just unacceptable! I thinks it is time that people started to educate themselves on the anatomy of soybeans. People really need to take the time to get to know them and their gentle intelligent ways...

    Ah, still remember those long summer nights. Sleeping under the stars and driving the beans across the plains...