[103306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rack power question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue Mar 25 12:43:06 2008
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:14:06 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Brian Raaen <braaen@zcorum.com>
CC: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200803251115.37009.braaen@zcorum.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Brian Raaen wrote:
> Russia (or the USSR at that time) used to use liquid graphite to cool their
> nuclear reactors, even thought it was flammable.... of course that was what
> they were using in Chernobyl.
This has diverged far enough that it's now off the topic of cooling. The
melting point of carbon however is 3800k...
you can get it to ignite in graphite form at roughly half that.
>
