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Ryland · 02-13-2009, 10:19 AM

If you used a heat pipe with a valve in it then you could just close the heat pipe off when your coolent was hot enough, you would have less fluid moving around so it would all heat up faster as you would have less mass to heat.

02-13-2009, 10:19 AM	#3 (permalink)
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