[Beowulf] Innovative liquid cooling

[Joe Landman]

On 03/01/2013 10:45 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>  Using this numbers, Water is 24x better than air Mineral oil is 6.75x 
> better than air 3M Novec 7000 is only 3.125x better What is clearly 
> much better than the other alternatives for heat transfer. If only it 
> wasn't conductive, and corrosive (rust, anyone?) I hope this makes up 
> for my earlier exaggerated numbers. Prentice

Technically, pure water is not a good conductor.  More of a dielectric 
insulator.   Its when you get those nasty impurities and ions in it, 
that it becomes an ok conductor.  Since its such a good solvent, its 
rather hard to keep those nasty ions out.

As far as I remember, one of the hardest parts of dealing with cooling 
liquids are the impurity buildup issues.  Unless you are dealing with 
Flourinert (see www.sisweb.com/referenc/msds/fc70.pdf ) which is 
goodness embodied ... unless you burn it ... then its pure eeeevuuulll.

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