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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.

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    -Billco, Fnarg.com