[103309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rack power question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Tue Mar 25 13:26:42 2008
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:56:59 +0000
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
CC: Brian Raaen <braaen@zcorum.com>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <47E924CE.9020008@bogus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>>
The graphite was used as a moderator not as a coolant.
--
Leigh
