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Richard Branson (who asked for UK taxpayer money to repair his private island after hurricane Irma) Has set a climate change challenge:
As the world continues to warm, you can expect more and more folks to be turning to air conditioners to keep their living environments cool and comfortable. And in that sense, this energy-intensive technology will do plenty to exacerbate the very problem it is designed to solve. The Global Cooling Prize is a competition to help stop runaway climate change, by dangling US$3 million in prize money for the development of more energy-efficient cooling solutions.
The Global Cooling Prize is backed by the Indian government among other partners, with Richard Branson taking on the ambassadorial duties.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by linkdude64 on Tuesday December 04 2018, @01:43AM (7 children)
The biggest problem with blowing air on electronics is that they're going to get dust piled on way faster than they would otherwise. Get a piece of cardboard, cut it out to fit behind your TV so that it won't be seen, and duct the air away from it.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snotnose on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:38AM (6 children)
This. Plus the fact the TV is venting hot air to the top, last thing I want to do is blow hot air down. Then again, it's a nice balmy 40 degrees F so I don't think an overheating TV is an issue.
CSB. Couple years ago my PS3 started overheating on hot summer days. I turned it around and vacuumed the fan vent. No joy, so I took an ice pack from the freezer and put it on top of the PS3. Problem kept getting worse, after a while I couldn't ignore it any more (in other words, a weekend). Know how most electronics that have a top half and a bottom half try to make an air/water tight seal? Not the PS3. That was a great opportunity for cooling. I pulled dust ropes from all around my poor PS3, no wonder it couldn't breath.
Moral? If you still have a PS3 and, like me, think Spring Cleaning is running the vacuum over the air vent, then think again.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:51AM (4 children)
I used to disassemble and then blow the fans with compressed air, then reassemble. Now I just blow compressed air and pray that the condensed water dries before it becomes a problem. PS3, notebook, NUC, all the same. Some day I'm going to stop being cheap about it and buy a real fanless PC.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Tuesday December 04 2018, @05:30PM (3 children)
Fanless usually means you're not buying top of the line and low power as well. You should be able to build a pretty decent and yet cheap fanless PC for pretty cheap. Depending on how cheap / slow you want to go, you even have something like the Raspberry Pi. On the other end, you could build a cheap "fanless" PC for about $200, if you skip windows and go with cheap but good parts. That machine would run circles around a Raspberry Pi. My favorite place at least for checking specs and finding most purchased / reviewed things is Newegg. https://www.newegg.com/ [newegg.com]
Some prices are limited time:
$44.99 - RAIDMAX Vortex V3 ATX-403WBP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with 450W Power Supply Pre-installed
$64.40 - AMD A6-9500E Bristol Ridge Dual-Core 3.0 GHz Socket AM4 35W AD9500AHABBOX Desktop Processor Radeon R5
$38.99 - HyperX Fury 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4 2400MHz DRAM (Desktop Memory) CL15 1.2V Black DIMM (288-pin) HX424C15FB/4 (Intel XMP, AMD Ryzen)
$54.99 - ASRock AB350M-HDV AM4 AMD Promontory B350 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
$24.99 - Kingston A400 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SA400S37/120G
Total: $228.36 + shipping and handling (some items ship free others are $4 or so shipping) + tax
You could go with something crazy like the following, but it's barely a step above a Raspberry Pi, for a whole lot more. Also, the built-in 16GB "SSD" wouldn't be ideal.
$195.99 - Mini PC Fanless Industrial Office Personal Desktop Computer with AMD LX-420 Quad Core USB3.0 WiFi LAN SSD/HDD, Support Linux Windows 7/8/10
CPU: AMD G-Series "e-Kabini" LX-420 2.0Ghz;
Configuration: 2G ram 16g ssd wifi
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 04 2018, @09:37PM
R-Pi still does not qualify as a "real PC" in my book - neither do Atom nor Celeron systems. Core i3 or better is almost there, and I typically am not happy 'til I'm up in the Core i5 range. I've been a spcr fan for years: http://www.silentpcreview.com/section18.html [silentpcreview.com] and actually purchased an i5 for use at work, it ran about $2200 for something that a similar-ish NUC might have cost ~$1000 - not entirely apples to apples because the silent PC has a miniITX mobo and I believe a true 4 core processor instead of 2 hyperthreaded like you get in the NUCs.
Anyway.... watch those "limited time" prices - I've been keeping my eye on Samsung EVO 860 1TB m.2 SSDs for a few months now, their Amazon prices have bounced between $129 and $189 over the space of weeks.
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(Score: 1) by bibendumsn on Wednesday December 05 2018, @04:34PM (1 child)
Nice setup, but aren't the case, power supply and processor still using fans for cooling?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday December 05 2018, @04:58PM
The power supply would be a necessary evil. You wouldn't need the case fans and the processor should be low power enough not to need a fan.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Barenflimski on Tuesday December 04 2018, @06:56PM
If the vent is in the middle of the wall, you can most likely route it between the studs up or down so as to have it exit above or below the TV. Sure you'll have to fix the drywall, but its fairly simple. Good luck!