New way of cooling without a fan

[hivelaser]

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/8...ink-is-the-fan

Very interesting.

[-bart-]

Very well worked out !

[dsli_jon]

..Yet another bloke who will be retired on his own private-island before 50, sipping margaritas from his complimentary lamborghini-tumblers whilst jovially skimming the glowing-reviews of this things' global-successes on his platinum-iPad, and then be off skin-diving with his bronzed 20-something wife every afternoon.. *sigh*...

[chad]

..Yet another bloke who will be retired on his own private-island before 50, sipping margaritas from his complimentary lamborghini-tumblers whilst jovially skimming the glowing-reviews of this things' global-successes on his platinum-iPad, and then be off skin-diving with his bronzed 20-something wife every afternoon.. *sigh*...

Sign me up!

chad

[-bart-]

OTOH if this thing relies on a 30µm airbearing, I can foresee it being not totally immune to dust.

[VJ AIWAZ]

Hey Jon you missed one important thing

" Developed by Jeff Koplow, a researcher at the US government’s Sandia National Laboratories,"
what that means is that he will just get a pat on the back and his weekly salary
hell they didnt even give him credit in the name " (which has also been dubbed the “Sandia Cooler”)"

[dsli_jon]

..he will just get a pat on the back and his weekly salary..

Maybe. But ya, I hear-ya.. ie: poor, poor Nikola... ..and, his name even sounds-better / would prolly have-been more 'marketable'.. Kooled by a Koplow!

..but, I'm sure he'll *still* beat-us to living on a Jenneau off the Barrier Reef..

[mixedgas]

Depends on his agreement with Sandia. Some times they let folks run with it and privatize. Unlike many other government agencies.

Even at the State U I worked at, I had a chance at royalty payments, but only if the work was actually licensed after patent. Only in the form of a one time check at time of licensing. Those payments were not that shabby. I could also have got two to five grand for mere issuance of a patent. Considering the extra work to get one, that just about balances out the unpaid overtime needed.

Usually the Fed, especially DOD, gets ALL of it. But lately they have caught on that their workers use patents to get other jobs and leave. So they now get the idea that a incentive is needed for retention.

Steve

[planters]

OK,
Wet blanket here. A heat sink needs at least a minimum cross section to conduct heat throughout its volume and this driver will push the mass up. The heat has to go somewhere and so the volume of air that it interacts with has to be maintained or the temperature must necessarily rise. It can't move air any faster than its surface speed and so the claim of VERY LOW speed is subjective. I see this as combining to produce vibration. Furthermore, I may have missed something here, but the interface between this moving object and a stationary heat generating source may be a serious choke point.

[hivelaser]

http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/acces...010/100258.pdf

Read thru the PDF and you see how it works...