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Mar 24, 2010

Green Computing HACK - Geothermal Glory

VIA HAckaDay

Are you still using heat sinks and fans to cool your computer? Lame.

Tearing up your property to bury geothermal coils is definitely the way to go. [Romir] has been working on this for about a month and is just getting back data from the first multi-day tests. Take some time to dig through his original post. It includes something of a table-of-contents for the 35 updates he's posted so far. Closed loop cooling seems to be trendy right now, we just didn't expect to see a system this large as part of a personal project. The last one we looked at used just six meters of pipe.