[103298] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rack power question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Raaen)
Tue Mar 25 11:28:21 2008
From: Brian Raaen <braaen@zcorum.com>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:15:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: <47E909FC.7000706@justinshore.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Russia (or the USSR at that time) used to use liquid graphite to cool their=
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nuclear reactors, even thought it was flammable.... of course that was what=
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they were using in Chernobyl.=20
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Brian Raaen
Network Engineer
braaen@zcorum.com
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, you wrote:
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> Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> > Of course, my chemistry is a little rusty, so I'm not sure about the=20
> > prospects for a non-toxic, non-flammable, non-conductive substance with=
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> > workable fluid flow and heat transfer properties :)
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> Mineral oil? =A0I'm not sure about the non-flammable part though. =A0Not =
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> oils burn but I'm not sure if mineral oil is one of them. =A0It is used=20
> for immersion cooling though.
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> Justin
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