Man cools computers with oil!

**TechZ** · August 17th, 2005, 07:11 AM

And he's using vegetable oil

A GERMAN CHAP is experimenting with oil cooled PCs.

But you don't have to worry about the rocketing cost of a barrel of oil, if your contemplating doing this yourself, because his oil filled PCs are green. Well, not exactly green, but they do use vegetable oil.

If you fly your browser over to this page, you'll see the bottles of vegetable oil he used for his first machine, next to what looks like a fish tank filled with oil. There's more up to date pictures, here.

Link: TheInq

Would be a right mess having to tinker with that box :P

**Richard1** · August 17th, 2005, 11:36 AM

Not only that Z but imagine a grease fire in your office. That doesn't seem safe to have them submerged in oil but whatever floats his boat... or CPU in this case.

**Atodini** · August 17th, 2005, 12:12 PM

In fact oil cooling of electronic circuit boards is not uncommon in the industrial world, I worked on several such installations in the late '60's - early '70's, during my apprenticeship though we never used vegetable based oils as coolant, always a non-flammable silicon based oil, (the same as used for electricity sub-station transformers). We used oil cooling predominately in situations of very high ambient temperatures, such as iron foundries where "air" cooling would have been insufficient. Flipping messy job changing failed I/O boards though - and those old "Norbit" boards did fail regularly!! Strange how the apprentice always got to do this task!