How about some DRY water

17 Apr, 2004 at 9:07pm ET Article published in Tech

After the miracle mistrial of Tyco’s tarnished former boss, the company is celebrating a miracle of its own – creation of a new fire-suppressing water that won’t ruin anything.

The odorless liquid, called Sapphire water, looks and feels exactly like water, except that you can submerge cell phones or laptops in a bucket of it, and all electronics will function perfectly without interruption.

Submitted by: EyesOnly

Source: NYpost

Comments

17 Apr 2004 ~ 9:12pm Geeky1

you can submerge cell phones or laptops in a bucket of it, and all electronics will function perfectly without interruption.

You can do that with fluorinert as well, and I believe even mineral oil. Di water can do this too, but only until the water becomes ionized, which happens basically as soon as it contacts metal...
17 Apr 2004 ~ 10:00pm mmonnin Ok so the quesion is...how well does it transfer heat?
17 Apr 2004 ~ 11:22pm Medlock Who doesn't see where that's goin'? lol
18 Apr 2004 ~ 6:52am EyesOnly My thought exactly. Safe watercooling. There it's said.
18 Apr 2004 ~ 11:09am Brilt

EyesOnly wrote:

My thought exactly. Safe watercooling. There it's said.

I was thinking more on the lines of complete system submersion with fans moving the water around. It would work on the same lines as air-cooling but better heat transfer. You could use a small refrigeration unit to keep the water cool/cold. This would make the whole system have incredible temps.

I doubt u could submerge hard drives, floppies, optical drives etc.... Basically anything with moving parts as the water would inhibit movement
18 Apr 2004 ~ 11:11am mmonnin Heck I would leave the HSs on and get some type of fan that would work under water.
18 Apr 2004 ~ 12:15pm AuthorityAction

mmonnin wrote:

Heck I would leave the HSs on and get some type of fan that would work under water.

Going to hook a propeller on there?
18 Apr 2004 ~ 1:22pm mmonnin Sure if thats would would work.:D
18 Apr 2004 ~ 5:29pm Medlock

Brilt wrote:

I was thinking more on the lines of complete system submersion with fans moving the water around. It would work on the same lines as air-cooling but better heat transfer. You could use a small refrigeration unit to keep the water cool/cold. This would make the whole system have incredible temps.

I doubt u could submerge hard drives, floppies, optical drives etc.... Basically anything with moving parts as the water would inhibit movement

lol I'm sure it'll be done somewhere, sooner or later, prolly for overclocking purposes. ...Total system submersion. That would be kool!
18 Apr 2004 ~ 5:34pm Thrax I already did it with another material.
18 Apr 2004 ~ 5:53pm Spinner

Thrax wrote:

I already did it with another material.

Yes you did, I remember.

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=222
18 Apr 2004 ~ 5:53pm Linc For the newer members: Project Deepfreeze

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/me shakes a fist at Spinner...
18 Apr 2004 ~ 11:58pm Brilt I've seen it done before in mineral oil and a rigged window air conditioner, worked great untill the top froze over and the whole thing had an inch of ice around it