Celsia using steam to cool off torrid computers
The Celsia's new cooling component, which has been developed at San Jose, claims to cool off sweltering parts inside computers and light fixtures running LEDs superior than run of the mill heat pipes and fans.
The company's NanoSpreader has a copper exterior that soaks up heat from a processor or a hard drive. The innards of the device take in a series of vacuum-sealed chambers and channels containing small amounts of water. When the water transforms into steam, the steam conducts the heat to another part such as aluminum heat sink and thereby the head is dissipated into the ambiance.
In usual, we need fans or heat pipes and metal tubes to dissipate the heat generated by processors and hard drives. Though IBM and most of the firms use water or oil-filled components for cooling internal computer components but the biggest downside is the need of large amounts of water that results in large size of these components.
Well, Celsia's components are pricier than the common cooling technologies, but it requires lesser cooling components.
Via: Cnet
