Collaborate Disseminate
With an El Niño event in full swing those of us in the northern hemisphere have just had a roasting hot summer, and those in the southern are about to …read more Continue reading Keep Your Back Cool While Others Melt
Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more Continue reading The Physics of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool
One of the biggest “David versus Goliath” stories in tech right now is the towns beset by AI data center projects they may or may not have asked for. Powered …read more Continue reading Who’s Building that Data Center?
People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently been suffering under an unseasonal June heatwave. Most of us have been …read more Continue reading The Coolest Hat At The Hacker Camp
Although cryocoolers are capable of pretty impressive cooling, for many of them the underlying working principle is simple enough that you do not need any special skills or a big …read more Continue reading Building a Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler With 3D-Printed Parts
There’s been a lot of virtual ink spilled in environmental circles about the cooling water requirements of data centers, but less consideration of what happens with all the heat coming …read more Continue reading The Heat Island Effect is Warming Up the AI Data Center Controversy
Once upon a time, home computers were low-powered enough that they barely needed any cooling at all. An Amiga 500 didn’t even have a heatsink on the CPU, while the …read more Continue reading How Water Vapor Makes Smartphones Faster
We’ve studiously avoided any mention of our latest interstellar visitor, 3I/Atlas, on these pages, mainly because of all the hoopla in the popular press about how Avi Loeb thinks it’s …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 17, 2025
Imagine cooling your building with the same principle that kept Victorian-era icehouses stocked with lake-frozen blocks, but in modern form. That’s the idea behind ice batteries, a clever energy storage …read more Continue reading The Coolest Batteries You’ve Never Heard Of
Although hot tubs may get all the glory, cold-plunge tubs are the ones that really help reduce muscle inflammation and soreness after exercise. The Snowcap tub makes that process more doable than ever, by chilling water without using any ice or refrige… Continue reading Cold-plunge tub chills water – and users – without ice or refrigerants