You see, I work to pay my mortgage and this stuff is only my hobby and reading three articles on the subject (there are only 7 bigger pieces quoted as sources in every one of them - I not talking The Sunday Times technology column here
) in 30 mins is a LOT for me and sufficient to generate pretty well informed opinion.
I never said it is a dead end.
I was not concerned about market value since you very well know that this kind of technologies have VERY long lead-in time befor becoming widely used in industry. Heat pipes have been around for more than 30 years, well before PCs ever existed not to mention cooling issues.
I was only intereted in employment of this 'invention' in PC cooling applications and you are right I failed to indentify microclimates applications (?)
I dunno about physics issue since to me there's nothing new here. Physics going on there are extremely simple! It's all about pressure/viscosity/phase change in closed environment (I disregard open PHPs on purpose here). As far as I could read into my ONLY THREE articles (
) the prblem faced by researches was not physics behind it but mathematical modelling of the whole process. They simply are not able (were not able) to calculate it and design it properly wothout experimentation.
I find this technology to be a potential gold mine in free, self sustaining and 100% green power generation using thermal gradients of our mother earth's crust
. All the pieces of this puzzle are there, just put them together and bingo
I think there's lot more into traditional heat pipe technology than current state of affairs. If low boiling point heat pipes could be feasibly mass produced (even if such designs were to have lower thermal energy throughoutput, but used in 'parallel' would compensate) I think we would have a winner here. Reasons are quite simple. fully closed system and as easily installed as air HSF
end of my comments on such
P.S. I love your sercasm m8