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The Fanless Spinning Heatsink
An anonymous reader writes "There's a fundamental flaw with fan-and-heatsink cooling systems: no matter how hard the fan blows, a boundary layer of motionless, highly-insulating air remains on the heatsink. You can increase the size of the heatsink and you can blow more air, but ultimately the boundary layer prevents the system from being efficient. But what if you did away with the fan? What if the heatsink itself rotated? Well, believe it or not, rotating the heat exchanger obliterates the boundary layer, removes the need for a fan, and it's so efficient that it can operate at low and very quiet speeds. That's exactly what the Air Bearing Heat Exchanger, developed by Jeff Koplow of the Sandia National Laboratories, has developed. It's even intrinsically immune to the build up of dust and detritus!"
But think of all the homeless Dust puppies!!!
have you no shame?
You sound angry. At thermodynamics.
yes. the spinning heat sink is attached to a spinning cpu, which is in turn attached to a spinning motherboard mounted to a spinning case. these are only available in funhouses btw.
The stories and info posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only fools would take it as fact.
... made from the hooves of a unicorn.
Godaddy is a scam and a ripoff.
+1 sweetness factor, such a rare moment in /. land.
Life is a great ride, the vehicle doesn't matter
it's a truly revolutionary device
haha! Excellent pun.
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