Imaging if this technology could cool a data centre.

Edit: I was not involved in this project. You are wasting your time asking me questions.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The link says ‘zero-emissions-cooling’

    The article sez: “It relies on the temperature change of materials called shape memory alloys (SMAs) when they are stretched and released.”

    How do you stretch something without producing any emissions?

    • lefaucet@slrpnk.net
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      I thought the same thing.

      Seems they are mainly saying they developed cooling method that doesn’t rely on a greenhouse gas for a refrigerant. Not nothing.

      …and if you stretch and release something off solar/wind power greenhouse emissions will be very low indeed.

      I’m curious about lifespan of these systems. I don’t know much about SMAs, but my intuition says they degrade. Am I wrong? I hope I am :)