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Cooling supercomputers, saving water

Sandia National Laboratories engineer David J. Martinez examines the cooling system at Sandia’s supercomputing center. His design for the new system is expected to save 4 million to 5 million gallons annually in New Mexico, and hundreds of millions of gallons nationally if the method is widely adopted. Called the Thermosyphon Cooler Hybrid System, the system cools like a refrigerator without the expense and energy needs of a compressor.

 

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Photo by Randy Montoya.

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Uploaded on September 1, 2016
Taken on August 11, 2016