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Can Plasma Cool a Datacenter? LinkedIn Told Me I'm Wrong. I'm Not Convinced.
Next in the "Can Plasma?" series: in a recent episode I said plasma datacenter cooling isn't practical. LinkedIn picked up on it. Comments, messages, emails, phone call. All telling me I'm wrong. Let me defend my position with specifics.
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00:00 Recap: I said plasma cooling of server farms won't work
00:15 LinkedIn disagreed. Loudly.
00:30 Let's deconstruct this
00:32 Ion wind: asymmetric electrodes + electric field = wind, no moving parts
00:52 Demonstrated for boundary layer attachment on airplanes and rockets (flight control)
01:13 The problem there was batteries: too heavy, too…
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