To hell with submersion. This is subzero!

I must first pay homage to the nice man from Croydon for sending me the link to the following story. There really is nothing better than a mad geek story to liven up my morning. I apologise for anyone reading this that may be expecting politics, you'll get it later.

There is a thread over on this forum that deserves blogging about for it's ingenuity. You see, computers need to be cooled, they generate heat. Traditionally this can be acheived through copper heath sinks and fans on the silicon drawing the heat away, but there are other, more efficient, and, exciting ways to do it.

There's water cooling for a start, which many do go in for. This does of course have the worrying possibility of having water and electrics next to each other which can be... well... quite bad. The option is a next trick called submersion cooling which is where you just chuck your electronics into a non-electrical conductive oil, for example, canola oil. This is exactly what the glorious geek linked above did, but he also got hungry when he did it, I won't ruin his telling of the tale though. Click here.

If the linked tale were to appears on a Cool Wall like in TopGear it would undoubtedly be in the SubZero fridge with the Aston Martin.