Salt water is highly corrosive, that's why people use mineral or silicone oil.
I've heard of people trying to use power-transformer(the ones on electrical grid substations) oil, but I don't know if it worked. /tony On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 06:27 +0000, jaquil...@eagleeyet.net wrote: > Probably a stupid question here, > > What is the advantage of using salty sea water lets say over for > example > mineral oil? I have seen on you tube these guys showing that a pc > will > still run in a fish tank and all components submerged in mineral > oil? > Yes it will be messier to change components but would the use of > mineral > oil be more efficient? > > > On 2018-11-04 14:10, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 18:27:05 +0000, you wrote: > > > > > I’m not sure there’s a huge population of Xcloud-Xbox gamers in > > > Orkney. There's not much daylight this time of year, of course, > > > so > > > maybe that's what those Orcadians are up to. > > > > Likely just a convenient place for a second test unit. > > > > In a way this is just an extension of the idea/product Sun came up > > wth > > where they put a datacentre in a shipping container with the idea > > that > > you could quickly get the datacentre where it was needed. > > > > While I wouldn't say this won't fail, I think there is a lot of > > attraction to the concept given not just the time lag do build a > > traditional data centre (mentioned in the article), but even the > > cost > > of real estate in many/most places people live these days. Do you, > > for one example, want to pay NYC rents or just throw a bunch of > > pods > > in the Hudson? > > > > I guess once you accept the idea that we no longer maintain these > > datacentres in the traditional way - we now just let hardware fail > > in > > place and ignore it until it's time to replace all the hardware - > > moving to smaller sealed units doesn't seem to strange. > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > > Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http:/ > /www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- -- Tony Albers Systems Architect Systems Director, National Cultural Heritage Cluster Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. Tel: +45 2566 2383 / +45 8946 2316 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
