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Old 07-23-2017, 09:12 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by teoman View Post
How about the inner part as you describe, but instead of the heatsinkds it is encased in another square peofile tube which is a thermal syphon filled with water under a vacuum or lpg.
I think if you're going to water cool them, a tiny pump low power would do vastly better than thermal syphon. I've evaluated thermal syphon systems in solar hot water setups, and active systems are able to produce way more power than the pump actually uses. My guess would be the same for this type of system.
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