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Fresh (potable) water is going to be a precious resource too, and salt water is probably out of the question for its corrosiveness. So I'm not sure replacing fl

by tremon 4y ago

Fresh (potable) water is going to be a precious resource too, and salt water is probably out of the question for its corrosiveness. So I'm not sure replacing fluorocarbons with water will be any better. Aren't there other liquids we can explore?

jeromegv 4y ago
How much water do you really need to cool a computer? Isn’t that negligeable?
- kadoban 4y ago
  _maybe_ a liter a year, for consumer water loops. Yeah, there's about a thousand things I'd worry about before the water usage of cooling computers.
  - hoseja 4y ago
    Hey, plastic straws are also negligible and pearl-clutchers made them an issue too.
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javajosh 4y ago
Salt water is already routinely used to cool something: engines in boats. The key component is the heat exchanger that uses the salt water to cool the fresh water circulating through the engine itself. I don't see why you couldn't do something similar for a computer.