Water cooling is cool but Liquid-Metal Cooling is better

[zer0]

ok well i was reading slashdot today and found this looks cool

http://www.nanocoolers.com/products_cooling.php

i do think that it uses mercury tho so i dont know how safe it is for us humans...

[2JSC]

I think its a closed system, so no contact with the Mercury wouldnt be a problem... Donno how well that would work really. But its pretty cool idea.

[dutchcedar]

Wassupwidat? A mercury based heatpipe? :wacko: :blink: :mellow:

[zer0]

well i said i think its merury because its the only metal that i know of that is liquid at low temperaters.

[Pug]

Nah, it can't be mercury.
This article refers to it as non-toxic (http://www.indusbusinessjournal.com/news/2004/06/15/Technology/Nanocoolers.Thermal.System.Hot.Tech.Topic-688786.shtml).

I remember reading about these guys a while back when they scored some major funding for nanotech cooling research.
They and Cooligy are racing against the Korean-based iCurie Labs Inc. (backed by LG) to be first to market with a viable product, from what I read.

Should be interesting...

[fillip]

Interesting indeed...

[Starbuck3733T]

Carbon Nanotubes, baby.

[dutchcedar]

they scored some major funding for nanotech cooling research.Ahhh... that explains the well written write-up with very little meat on the bun... <_<

A patent attorney once told me, "you can invent something useful or present a compelling story... the something useful will still have to be defended, but the compelling story is money in the bank"... it went something like that, anyway.

[BigBen2k]

Nah, even simpler: An alloy of gallium and indium.

See the full comments here:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/03/1421243&tid=222

It's the liquid version of a rail gun, in miniature. (Oh yeah, ya'll probably don't know what a gun rail is... try http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun.htm ).

As long as it doesn't draw a lot of power, it might have possibilities. There's lots of new electronic cooling advances in the works.