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MSI ECOlution: powering fans without electricity

 

Actively cooled heatsinks aren’t exactly new, but electricity is so last year - what about powering those fans by the heat generated from the chip it’s trying to cool?
Engineers at MSI have done exactly that with the new ECOlution heatsink – it features a "Stirling Engine" - an engineering masterpiece originally patented by Scottish engineer, Robert Sterling.

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Sunday 9 March, 2008 07:01 PM
 
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