<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">I saw that article and I think it could be quite important. It's literally and figuratively very cool. </font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 2:40 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>
<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">"If chips get too hot they 
malfunction, so this is already a major obstacle for further 
miniaturizing electronics, and it’s also an unsustainable resource drain
 on big technology companies with lots of hardware. Data centers in the 
US consume 24 terawatt-hours of electricity and 100 billion liters of 
water a year, which is equivalent to the residential requirements of the
 city of Philadelphia.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">A new approach that builds 
microfluidic cooling channels into chips could provide dramatically 
better cooling using far less water. The design, reported in a</span> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2666-1" target="_blank"><span lang="en-GB">paper in </span><em><span lang="en-GB">Nature</span></em></a><span lang="en-GB"><em>,</em> is capable of 50 times the performance of state-of-the-art alternative cooling systems, according to the authors.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB"><span lang="en-GB">“This cooling technology will enable 
us to make electronic devices even more compact and could considerably 
reduce energy consumption around the world,” study leader Elison Matioli
 from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland </span><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/epfd-tcf090220.php" target="_blank"><span lang="en-GB">said in a press release</span></a><span lang="en-GB">."</span></p>

</div><div><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2020/09/14/this-microchip-has-its-own-built-in-cooling-system/" target="_blank">https://singularityhub.com/2020/09/14/this-microchip-has-its-own-built-in-cooling-system/</a></div></div>
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