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The goal was to reduce energy and water usage. It is the difference between "takes a whole stream's worth of water a day" and "doesn't use any water". But PFAS
by Nasrudith 3y ago
The goal was to reduce energy and water usage. It is the difference between "takes a whole stream's worth of water a day" and "doesn't use any water". But PFAS are of course too problematic.
- eternityforest 3y agoI still don't quite get it. If you can closed-loop reuse the nasty PFAS, can't you also just reuse the water? From what I can find it seems like immersion cooling just uses water anyway to cool the coolant, why not cut out the middleman and just run the water through a water block?
- dessimus 3y agoImmersion means the entire computer, motherboard, cpu, gpu, ram, etc. is in the liquid, not just piped to waterblocks attached to specific areas to wish to cool. You cannot do this with plain water as it is conductive enough to short circuit the computer. If there was a way to use distilled water, they would have figured it out long before using the PFAS chemicals.