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I recall something about liquid (something, could be nitrogen, or perhaps even mercury) that was chilled; PC Boards were then submersed in the liquid to keep cool. Maybe on Crays? On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Daniel Senie wrote: > > At 11:10 PM 8/29/01, Vadim Antonov wrote: > > > > >On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Andrew Partan wrote: > > > > > I have proposed to various router vendors the possibility of giving > > > them a chilled water feed instead of lots of cool air. At the > > > moment they seem to not need it, but I would not be surprized to > > > find something like this needed at some point. > > > >Err. Water and electricvity make a dangerous mix. > > And this was not a problem in IBM Mainframe computers because? > > I'm not registering an opinion one way or the other at this point on > whether routers should consider other forms of cooling, but using water or > other liquids to cool electronics is not a new concept. Properly > engineered, there is no particular danger. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Daniel Senie [email protected] > Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com > > -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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