Vacuum Cooling
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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:
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| | | | <--- Outer glass case contains no air.
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| | Computer | |
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| / \<--+-- Strings to suspend computer in outer case.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Not sure I agree - see this discussion[^].
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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. :)
block of ice in space I think that's called a comet :confused:
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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:
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|\ /|
| \ / |
| \ / |
| \ / |
| \ / |
| +============+ |
| | | |
| | | | <--- Outer glass case contains no air.
| | | |
| | Computer | |
| | | |
| | | |
| +============+ |
| / \ |
| / \<--+-- Strings to suspend computer in outer case.
| / \ |
| / \ |
|/ \|
+------------------------+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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Actually, thinking on it, you might induce someone to turn the fire on, so I suppose that counts.
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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.
| / \ |
| / \ |
|/ \|
+------------------------+aspdotnetdev wrote:
would keeping a computer in a vacuum at room temperature help cool it at all
It would cause it to heat up. A lot. In fact it wold probably BSOD with that very rare BSOD error to do with overheating that I can never remember. Either that or catch fire. Especially if its a laptop.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
Simple thermodynamics
Oxymoron? I kid, that does make sense... I wasn't quite sure how heat transfers in a vacuum. Would the same thing happen in space, where I hear the temperature is quite cold (near absolute zero)? It would be awfully ironic to boil in an absolute zero environment.
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Double glazing. Think about it.
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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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