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  • _ _Damian S_

    Stop it! You are ruining our image of you as a drunken buffoon!! :laugh:

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      Temperature has nothing to do with heat! A bath of water at 1 degree C has way more heat that a cup of boiling water. Actually boiling at near absolute zero is EXACTLY what happens! Go to the top of Everest and water boils at 70C.

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      Luc Pattyn
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      Dalek Dave wrote:

      Go to the top of Everest and water boils at 70C.

      No thanks, I'd rather boil water at 100C and have my tea here. :)

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        Oh, well that's alright then! The world is back in order...

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          Dalek Dave wrote:

          Go to the top of Everest and water boils at 70C.

          No thanks, I'd rather boil water at 100C and have my tea here. :)

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          Lee Humphries
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          Luc Pattyn wrote:

          No thanks, I'd rather boil water at 100C and have my tea here.

          Supposedly old Ed and Tensing tried the tea at the top of Everest thing and agreed with you - apparently it tasted disgusting.

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          • A AspDotNetDev

            I've seen computers cooled with fans (airflow), tubes (water cooling), and fully submerged in oil (oil cooling), but I've never heard of a computer kept in a perfect vacuum (well, aside from those vacuum tube things that only the wisest of CPians remember). For all you pysicists, would keeping a computer in a vacuum at room temperature help cool it at all? Or would it perhaps cause it to overheat? Neither? For your reference, here is an "artist's" rendition of such a vacuum sealed computer:

            +------------------------+
            |\ /|
            | \ / |
            | \ / |
            | \ / |
            | \ / |
            | +============+ |
            | | | |
            | | | | <--- Outer glass case contains no air.
            | | | |
            | | Computer | |
            | | | |
            | | | |
            | +============+ |
            | / \ |
            | / \<--+-- Strings to suspend computer in outer case.
            | / \ |
            | / \ |
            |/ \|
            +------------------------+

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            Andy Brummer
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            There's a reason they build thermos flasks like they do, and it's not to generate efficient heat flow.

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            • D Dalek Dave

              It would boil itself in minutes. The air is required to make the heat sinks work. Without the convection the only way energy could be expended from the system is by radiation, and that is not efficient as a cooler. Simple thermodynamics.

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              Roger Wright
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              Not bad for a bean counter... :-D

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              • S Sean Cundiff

                Dalek Dave wrote:

                Temperature has nothing to do with heat!

                Indeed. It's often more intuitive to explain temperature as 'heat density'. Of course it's more complex than that, but the concept is helpful.

                -Sean ---- Fire Nuts

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                Andy Brummer
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                Until you get to something like spin temperature where temperature can actually decrease as you increase temperature and you can reach negative temperatures. It's actually a measure of change of randomness or entropy over change in energy, which for most objects is proportional to energy. Ha!

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                • S Sean Cundiff

                  Rob Graham wrote:

                  Temperature is to heat as voltage is to current..

                  Not quite. Temperature is the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance. Voltage is the potential energy per unit charge. I think it would be a more appropriate comparison to say: Temperature is to heat as current density (J) is to current (I).

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                  Rob Graham
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                  Not sure I agree - see this discussion[^].

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                  • A AspDotNetDev

                    That made me wonder what would happen to water in space. Seems this (article with video at bottom) would happen. Now, any guess as to what would happen to a block of ice in space? My guess is it would stay a block of ice. This stuff is neat! I hope to one day get back to school and learn more physics. :)

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                    block of ice in space I think that's called a comet :confused:

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                    • A AspDotNetDev

                      I've seen computers cooled with fans (airflow), tubes (water cooling), and fully submerged in oil (oil cooling), but I've never heard of a computer kept in a perfect vacuum (well, aside from those vacuum tube things that only the wisest of CPians remember). For all you pysicists, would keeping a computer in a vacuum at room temperature help cool it at all? Or would it perhaps cause it to overheat? Neither? For your reference, here is an "artist's" rendition of such a vacuum sealed computer:

                      +------------------------+
                      |\ /|
                      | \ / |
                      | \ / |
                      | \ / |
                      | \ / |
                      | +============+ |
                      | | | |
                      | | | | <--- Outer glass case contains no air.
                      | | | |
                      | | Computer | |
                      | | | |
                      | | | |
                      | +============+ |
                      | / \ |
                      | / \<--+-- Strings to suspend computer in outer case.
                      | / \ |
                      | / \ |
                      |/ \|
                      +------------------------+

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                      Personally, I'd love to see Doppler Cooling[^]. I have a neighbor with a bird house and me and those birds have a reckoning coming.

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                        Personally, I'd love to see Doppler Cooling[^]. I have a neighbor with a bird house and me and those birds have a reckoning coming.

                        And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

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                        leppie
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                        Chris Austin wrote:

                        Personally, I'd love to see Doppler Cooling[^].

                        An evaporation cooler is 'better' and a lot easier to make.

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                          Chris Austin wrote:

                          Personally, I'd love to see Doppler Cooling[^].

                          An evaporation cooler is 'better' and a lot easier to make.

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                          Chris Austin
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                          leppie wrote:

                          An evaporation cooler is 'better' and a lot easier to make.

                          But I want a LASER!!! :)

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                            block of ice in space I think that's called a comet :confused:

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                            Haha, true enough.

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                            • D Dalek Dave

                              Temperature has nothing to do with heat! A bath of water at 1 degree C has way more heat that a cup of boiling water. Actually boiling at near absolute zero is EXACTLY what happens! Go to the top of Everest and water boils at 70C.

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                              Mark_Wallace
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                              Dalek Dave wrote:

                              Actually boiling at near absolute zero is EXACTLY what happens!

                              ??? Freezing, Shirley? It's reducing pressure that lowers the desublimation temperature -- lack of heat can't change a boiling point; that would be dorapaxical.

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                              • L Luc Pattyn

                                Dalek Dave wrote:

                                Go to the top of Everest and water boils at 70C.

                                No thanks, I'd rather boil water at 100C and have my tea here. :)

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                                Mark_Wallace
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                                Luc Pattyn wrote:

                                No thanks, I'd rather boil water at 100C and have my tea here.

                                You know that's not true, don't you? You can make tea with room-temperature water. God knows where the "must be boiling" tripe came from.

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                                • D Dalek Dave

                                  There is also induction.

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                                  Dalek Dave wrote:

                                  There is also induction.

                                  CONduction. Induction is the transference of electromotive force through magnetism. Heat transfers by CCR: - Convection - Conduction - Radiation

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                                  • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                                    cooling happens by convection (transfer of heat from one material to another). so... in a vacuum, no heat would transfer or convect since there would be nothing to absorb the heat. hence... the computer would soon meltdown. it would be better to have some sort of superconducting heat convecting "diode"-like device (perfect convection with no resistance in one direction) attached to the computer's components. ==== actually in your diagram, heat would move along the strings

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                                    ahmed zahmed wrote:

                                    convection (transfer of heat from one material to another).

                                    That's conduction. Convection needs a fluid.

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                                      Dalek Dave wrote:

                                      There is also induction.

                                      CONduction. Induction is the transference of electromotive force through magnetism. Heat transfers by CCR: - Convection - Conduction - Radiation

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                                      Dalek Dave
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                                      Heat can be transfered by induction. Use thermocouplers to create electric current, transfer the current via induction, the energy is then removed from the system via induction. Next?

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                                        Heat can be transfered by induction. Use thermocouplers to create electric current, transfer the current via induction, the energy is then removed from the system via induction. Next?

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                                        Dalek Dave wrote:

                                        transfer the current via induction

                                        Um... You might want to rethink your statement.

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                                          Heat can be transfered by induction. Use thermocouplers to create electric current, transfer the current via induction, the energy is then removed from the system via induction. Next?

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                                          Mark_Wallace
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                                          Actually, thinking on it, you might induce someone to turn the fire on, so I suppose that counts.

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