Ionic wind muted as the future of PC cooling!

[HEXUS]

Charged particles to come to hot-running components' rescue? Researchers at Purdue University think so.

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[peterb]

Pedant alert...

Surely the headline should be Ionic Wind mooted as... (not muted - completely different) although proposed might be better than mooted.

[dave87]

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one that noticed that....

[Tarinder]

I was trying to be really clever and use muted (a lack of noise) in relation to loud cooling. Guess it didn't work. I'll change it back to the original mooted.

[peterb]

Sorry - too subtle for me!!

[pollaxe]

I did wonder if it was a pun, actually.. good one!

[Lee H]

You could always build a Ghetto ionic cooler like the ones found at the links below

http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/I.../Overview.aspx
http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/I.../Overview.aspx

[dangel]

I wonder how they've tackled the ozone problem (ionic cooling generates loads of it as a by-product and it's not at all good for humans)?

[charleski]

I haven't been able to get a hold of the paper, but the BBC report makes it sound as if they're talking about a small single-chip solution. This sort of thing has already been done at a case level. There was a Hexus thread about it a year ago .

[nvening]

I wonder how they've tackled the ozone problem (ionic cooling generates loads of it as a by-product and it's not at all good for humans)?

Surley if it creates ozone, as you put it (which i guess would mean O³) then it would improove the ozone layer

Does it create CFCs then?

[scarbunny]

Not likely to help the ozone layer as the highly charged ozone particles break down before reaching a suitable hight as it is highly unstable. The other problem being Ozone is highly cacenogenic. The sweet fresh smell after a summer storm is ozone