New Chip-cooling Technology

BillOfThePecosKind writes "Researchers have demonstrated a new technology using tiny "ionic wind engines" that might dramatically improve computer chip cooling, possibly addressing a looming threat to future advances in computers and electronics. Purdue researchers funded by Intel have improved the "heat-transfer coefficient" by some 250%. I never liked water cooled systems, and this sounds promising. However I wonder how much ozone one of these things produces."

Ozone production FTW

[SamP2]

"I wonder how much ozone one of these things produces."

Produces? Hey, let's make a ton of these and solve the ozone hole problem forever!

If I don't, someone else will....

[ZeroFactorial]

Cool!

Re:Ozone production FTW

[Tatisimo]

If we dig down some, the ground level ozone we're making will be above us, therefore, making a new, lower ozone layer. Time to move underground, my fellow human beings!

Ironic wind?

[Omnifarious]

Does this mean now that our computers may have yet another thing that can go wrong? They might break wind.

Re:Ozone production FTW

[eggnoglatte]

What the heck is "o-zone"? Ozone [wikipedia.org] is a molecule, not some kind of atmospheric zone; that would be the ozone layer, i.e. the atmospheric layer with a high natural concentration of ... wait for it ... ozone.

Re:Ozone production FTW

[bigdavesmith]

Slashdot is not the proper place for a comprehensive discussion of the o-zone.

Those of you over 18 might want to check out this clip [youtube.com] though, if you're not sure exactly what the o-zone is.

Re:Power

[billster0808]

Molecules have their own unions now? Next thing you know they'll be asking for health coverage!

Fact catches fiction

[SEWilco]

Science fiction movies have been showing us for years that future computers spew fountains of sparks at the slightest disturbance. And soon they will.

Re:High Altitude Airships FTW

[Jotaigna]

that would be like getting a woolen jumper big enough and a comb long enough to power your computer with static electricity.

Re:Ozone production FTW

[Nefarious Wheel]

I think we'd need a giant space truck, not a series of tubes. Space ain't the place to go waving internets around.

Re:Ozone production FTW

[FST777]

everyone start digging

You must be new here...

Re:Power

[GaryOlson]

He used to be a stutterer; and apparently he still has problems with big words. This is not a tech support problem; we have enough other real work to do.