Author: martin fierz
Date: 15:57:16 10/17/03
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On October 17, 2003 at 17:11:30, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >On October 17, 2003 at 07:24:49, martin fierz wrote: > >>sounds good at first, but think about this: today's processors generate >>something between 10 and 100 watt of heat that you need to remove. since your >>idea explicitly attempts to use today's technology, that would mean that you >>also generate 1e8 times more heat. 1GW, that's about what an atomic power plant >>delivers... now that will need one hell of a cooler :-) > >Totally off topic. I did some research on a magnet, which used 10 MW (not too >far away from your GW). It was not really huge (perhaps 2 m^3 volume, probably >less). All the power was literally burned (super conduction does not work >anymore at those high fields). This rather small devices, that was more or less >an oven with 10 MW power could be cooled (certainly lots of water was needed - >IIRC in the order of 1000 l/s). > >Regards, >Dieter a colleague of mine also did some work on one of those "bitter"-magnets, for his PhD. i think we calculated that you could heat a bathtub full of water within a second with that thing to it's boiling point :-) they also had to call the local electricity company before turning it on... cheers martin
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