Some power transformer oils do work - but performance measurements, performance/price evaluation and long term system durability studies seem to be lacking.
On 11/5/18 10:16 AM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
