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Ultimate CPU Chiller?

I say, put that CPU heat to work. What we should really be doing with it is getting some power back into the system via Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion techniques.

Anytime you have a gap in energy levels, you can use that to generate energy. Think of OTEC devices as the reverse of a water heater. Instead of taking energy to make water hotter than it starts, you use a temperature differential to make energy. This is intended to be used in the tropics, where the top of the water is alot hotter than the bottom.

So, use a liquid-based CPU chiller, team it up with some tapwater or something sitting in a basement, and you have energy coming back to feed back into that CPU.

Nevermind that it's probably impractical until we have nanotype energy devices. Details, details. The idea's gotta be worth a million dollars. Zimbabwean dollars, that is.

My Dad once tried a particular proposal about using detergent properties to change do OTEC in a different approach from the normal one of using an ammonia-based heat exchanger. I probably remember it so well because I got a tour of the spare WW2 landing craft (LST(L), ISTR) (it was fun reading Churchill's account of their development).