Quote:
Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Well to get a heat sink that works as well as a radiator, you need the surface area of that radiator. It's a 3d radiator. You gain efficiency with higher coolant temps, higher pressure, slower speed of the cooling fluid, more air flow, maybe some other variables that would alter the delta involved.
You ARE sinking what ever btu you are burning generating horsepower, throughout the engine bay. Some leaves easily through the exhaust sysyem but that has losses also.
|
Oh I wasn't thinking of cars when I said heatsinks. More computers and such where silence beats efficiency.
The HS would have to be ground so as not to disturb the electrons in the nm wide silicone paths.
Then where would you put your thin wires to cut boundary layer as close to heat source as possible?
Also Ozone is an issue if you're going to be breathing the air.
IIRC you need a good finish on the rounded, low electron density surface under careful (to low) voltage control to avoid making it.