>: The oil needs to be kept rather clean, otherwise it will loose its good insulation properties, hence you need sealed containers or purification devices, in industrial scale deployments this means keeping an eye on the chemical composition of your coolant by regular chemical analysis.
Considering that they say that it only needs to be changed once a decade, it sounds like they've got that figured out.
>Connectors and cables need to be really oil-tight, otherwise the oil will creep out through cables hanging out of a closed vessel (even if they go higher than the oil-surface)!
You've already proposed one solution to that problem. Another possibility would be a simple lipophobic coating on a small section of the cable.
>you'd basically need thousands of cubic meters of pure, constantly filtered oil...
Once again, if it's changed once a decade, that's not really a big deal.
>"Professionally", one would use this technology for a reason, hence in devices that are even more densly packed than usual blade-centers and there I expect issues with forced circulations of warm/hot oil just as we have hot/cold air distribution nowadays.
OK, but Intel has been testing this in data centers for over a year. This isn't an idea that they're toying with. It's something that has been put into production.
>A technology like currently deployed water-cooled devices, where the majority of heat is collected by water at the concentration points (mainly CPU) and air is taking care of the (much reduced) remains seems much more sensible to me.
Well, I mean, that should be comparable with numbers. They say this takes energy consumption down to 3%. What are the numbers for water cooling?
Considering that they say that it only needs to be changed once a decade, it sounds like they've got that figured out.
>Connectors and cables need to be really oil-tight, otherwise the oil will creep out through cables hanging out of a closed vessel (even if they go higher than the oil-surface)!
You've already proposed one solution to that problem. Another possibility would be a simple lipophobic coating on a small section of the cable.
>you'd basically need thousands of cubic meters of pure, constantly filtered oil...
Once again, if it's changed once a decade, that's not really a big deal.
>"Professionally", one would use this technology for a reason, hence in devices that are even more densly packed than usual blade-centers and there I expect issues with forced circulations of warm/hot oil just as we have hot/cold air distribution nowadays.
OK, but Intel has been testing this in data centers for over a year. This isn't an idea that they're toying with. It's something that has been put into production.
>A technology like currently deployed water-cooled devices, where the majority of heat is collected by water at the concentration points (mainly CPU) and air is taking care of the (much reduced) remains seems much more sensible to me.
Well, I mean, that should be comparable with numbers. They say this takes energy consumption down to 3%. What are the numbers for water cooling?