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HP Technology Helps Fernwarme Wien Distribute Vienna's Hot Water As Environmentally Safe Heat Source
White Papers Like any highly populated metropolitan area, Vienna faces the ongoing challenges of disposing of city trash and providing dependable heat to its residents and businesses. However, Vienna is home to Fernwarme Wien, an innovative company whose...
[June 29, 2005, 0:00]
Homebrew Cosy Cottage - A High Tech Old House
Blog This system extracts heat energy from the air and uses it to heat water. In my previous blog I outlined our plan to free energy from the air to heat my dear old cottage in an environmentally friendly way.
[December 14, 2007, 10:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's got a much higher specific heat capacity than water, is cheap, isn't particularly toxic and doesn’t smell — all of which give it something of an advantage over most server room denizens. But now it has a new role, helping to keep server rooms...
[February 3, 2006, 16:55]
IBM Puts A Chill On The Datacentre
News The company's "Cool Blue" component (officially known as the IBM eServer Rear Door Heat eXchanger) draws on the supply of chilled water produced by a standard datacentre cooling setup. Every minute, the system circulates 30-38 litres of the water...
[July 13, 2005, 9:45]
IBM To Cool Layered Chips With Water
News While unique in its microscopic scale, IBM's use of water to cool down the heat generated by computer processing is nothing new. The trouble is that this type of experimental chip structure also generates a large amount of heat.
[June 5, 2008, 16:22]
Inside The Recycled Data Centre
News The inner layer absorbs and blocks heat, and is plastic combined with chemicals. The door is quadruple-insulated with the same materials plus a ceramic layer, while the door-frame is lined with a sealant which expands with heat and hermetically...
[March 11, 2008, 16:38]
Homebrew Cosy Cottage - A High Tech Old House
Blog This system, popular in Scandinavia, extracts heat energy from the air and uses it to heat water. Heat pumps work most efficiently when the temperature difference between the air source and the water output is small; to help, the heat pump will be...
[December 13, 2007, 19:03]
IBM Summit Server Prepares For Takeoff
News Each chip sports a large water-cooled heat-radiation system, in which the chip's heat evaporates water that rises within a sealed mechanism and re-condenses into a liquid. It's similar to the way sweat cools a person, except that the system is...
[November 29, 2001, 14:39]
AMD, Toshiba To Make Notebooks Cool
News It uses a copper tube filled with purified water to draw heat away from the processor. The heat is then transferred into cooler areas of the PC. This is designed to take heat away from the CPU and funnel it to the cooler areas of the PC," said...
[April 19, 2000, 8:20]
Steam Age Tech Takes Heat Off Chips
News After the water is pumped above the chip, passing a millimetre away from the active layers, it circulates through a radiator and releases the heat to the outside. One of the key discoveries in steam engine technology was that multiple small pipes...
[October 8, 2003, 16:25]
How To Make Your PCs Quieter
News Water cooling (or liquid cooling) relies on circulation of a fluid to dissipate heat generated by components. The main culprits are the heat generated by power-hungry components and the cooling methods implemented to deal with the problem.
[July 23, 2002, 13:05]
Want To Deliver Your Blog By RSS? Now You Can
Blog Comment It also produces slightly better fuel mileage and power, greatly reduced acidic blow-by products (thereby enhancing engine life) and less waste heat (also enhancing engine life). Lastly, electricity can be used to create sufficient heat to...
[June 30, 2008, 12:05]
Double-gate Chip Stops Power Leakage
News Not only does the server require more energy, but also ambient cooling systems have to be beefed up because of the excess heat created by the excess electrical flow. The heat produced by microprocessors, which now can contain over 200 million...
[September 9, 2002, 15:15]
Buyers Turn Up The Heat On Server Makers
News The days of the peanut butter spread approach, where you distribute heat across your data centre is gone," said Michael Harpur, UK blade systems manager for HP. One side-effect of the shift to blade servers is the increased focus this is placing on...
[May 11, 2005, 10:25]
Dell's Customers Wooed By IBM
News Intel has been bumping up against the upper end of its heat limits, because it's been rapidly moving to processors that run at a faster clock cycle, likely in response to competitive pressures from AMD, he said.
[August 11, 2003, 10:55]
Silence Is Golden, For Some
News Anything you can think of that creates heat, we're trying to provide a quiet, fanless solution for it," Jung said. Most PC noise issues come down to heat. Zalman has gone on to provide quiet cooling systems for numerous other PC heat-spewers and is...
[January 31, 2005, 15:45]
Smart Jacket Handles Mobile Calls And MP3s
Talkback It will never work.o I may not wear that item of clothing every day.o it may not be fashionable.o What about the water and heat processes of washing and drying the item.o This is not new, this has been done many times before and guess what...
[July 26, 2004, 16:21]
NEC To Launch Water-cooled Notebooks
News The water-cooling module uses a piezoelectric pump to drive the hot liquid from a plate attached to the processor through an aluminium radiation sheet that dissipates the heat. However, machines with fast processors also face the problem of...
[July 1, 2003, 7:49]
Range Software Package
Downloads Its main features are support for heat transfer and radiation, linear stress-strain, ground water flow, 3D mesh generation, an intuitive GUI, and import and export functionality. Range Software is software for finite element analysis in engineering...
[September 17, 2007, 18:01]
Homemade Mouthwash
Downloads Remove from the heat, let cool slightly. Homemade Spearmint Mouthwash: 6 ounces water, 2 ounces vodka, 4 teaspoons liquid glycerine, 1 teaspoon aloe vera gel, 10-15 drops Spearmint essential oil. Boil water and vodka, add glycerine and aloe vera gel.
[June 12, 2007, 3:01]
