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I wonder if the improvements for the aluminum heatsink might be applicable to other situations like cpu/gpu heatsinks or other places where cooling is needed.
by scheme271 1y ago
I wonder if the improvements for the aluminum heatsink might be applicable to other situations like cpu/gpu heatsinks or other places where cooling is needed. It seems like it might be economical.
- MadnessASAP 1y agoI caught that as well. Further reading it looks like they had a ~2x improvement over a flat aluminium sheet (Which itself performed worse then the bare TEG). And of that improvement about half came from radiative cooling. So my very hot take is that a conventional forced air finned radiator treated with this laser process would show an improvement, it is unlikely to be economically viable versus just using a bigger radiator (at desktop/server CPU/GPU scales). At laptop scales it might be more viable given space constraints.
- iTokio 1y agoCars are an obvious application. Some parts get very hot, and any electricity produced without engine or fuel add to range / efficiency.