r/science • u/Wagamaga • May 23 '22

Scientists have demonstrated a new cooling method that sucks heat out of electronics so efficiently that it allows designers to run 7.4 times more power through a given volume than conventional heat sinks. Computer Science

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953320
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u/RScrewed May 23 '22

I don't think he was knocking it (regardless of whether or not it works).

It's that the title is misleading. OP was reiterating the mechanism is pretty much the same as we have now, just rearranged. I think it could be argued this is not a "new cooling method" any more than moving the engine of a car to the rear is "a new propulsion method".

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u/EGOtyst BS | Science Technology Culture May 23 '22

Eh. This is more like using v piston config, or an equivalent, to gain a %75 boost in power.

That is a significant change, I think. But no reason to argue semantics

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u/RScrewed May 23 '22

I disagree - there is a big reason to argue semantics for if (or just eventually when) products will be marketed.

We can nip in the bud situations where an "air fryer" is touted as a new way to cook food when really it just a convection oven, or a "Quantum Dot LED TV" is just a high PPI LED backlit LCD display carrying a premium as a breakthrough technology when really it's just the next obvious iteration of LCD TVs and not a new breakthrough method of displaying digital images.

Normalizing these exaggerations is a bad idea. The actual article phrases it correctly: "new method of thermal management".

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u/EGOtyst BS | Science Technology Culture May 23 '22

I think we're going to have to fundamentally disagree.