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Answer» http://itnews.com.au/News/72400,silent-microchip-fan-has-no-moving-parts.aspx http://www.thorrn.com/technology.html Quote Boffins in the US have developed a microchip fan with no moving parts that operates silently and generates enough wind to cool a laptop computer.. The solid-state fan, developed with support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), is touted as the most powerful and energy efficient fan of its size. The device produces three times the flow rate of a typical small mechanical fan and is one-fourth the size. That's pretty crazy. Hope it REALLY kicks off in the computer industry would be nice to get rid of all or most of the fans in a computer.true. i would like to see how it compares to a 120mm case fan though.Quote from: homer on March 21, 2008, 12:36:34 PM true. i would like to see how it compares to a 120mm case fan though. They could probably just fuse a bunch of them together to get the desired cfm...Quote from: michaewlewis on March 21, 2008, 05:37:01 PM Quote from: homer on March 21, 2008, 12:36:34 PM true. i would like to see how it compares to a 120mm case fan though. They could probably just fuse a bunch of them together to get the desired cfm... in that case, i wonder how expensive it might be.The comments on the drawbacks especially ESD were pretty interesting. As one PERSON stated i'm not sure what effects there would be creating a plasma field so close to a CPU...plasma field you say? i wonder how close we are to making one of these bad BOYS... Quote from: homer on March 22, 2008, 01:20:04 AM plasma field you say? i wonder how close we are to making one of these bad boys... I doubt that will cool the computer... The thing itself overheats when used too long.

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Boffins in the US have developed a microchip fan with no moving parts that operates silently and generates enough wind to cool a laptop computer..

The solid-state fan, developed with support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), is touted as the most powerful and energy efficient fan of its size.

The device produces three times the flow rate of a typical small mechanical fan and is one-fourth the size.

That's pretty crazy. Hope it REALLY kicks off in the computer industry would be nice to get rid of all or most of the fans in a computer.true. i would like to see how it compares to a 120mm case fan though.Quote from: homer on March 21, 2008, 12:36:34 PM

true. i would like to see how it compares to a 120mm case fan though.

They could probably just fuse a bunch of them together to get the desired cfm...Quote from: michaewlewis on March 21, 2008, 05:37:01 PM

Quote from: homer on March 21, 2008, 12:36:34 PM
true. i would like to see how it compares to a 120mm case fan though.

They could probably just fuse a bunch of them together to get the desired cfm...

in that case, i wonder how expensive it might be.The comments on the drawbacks especially ESD were pretty interesting.
As one PERSON stated i'm not sure what effects there would be creating a plasma field so close to a CPU...plasma field you say? i wonder how close we are to making one of these bad BOYS...

Quote from: homer on March 22, 2008, 01:20:04 AM

plasma field you say? i wonder how close we are to making one of these bad boys...

I doubt that will cool the computer... The thing itself overheats when used too long.

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