News Streacom Launches Heat Pipe Kits for Hardcore PC DIYers

[Admin]

Streacom now offers 6mm copper heat pipes in 150, 200, 250 and 300mm lengths, with cooling blocks and accessories to mate with the pipes.

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[who_farted]

looking at this makes me wondering if something like geothermal heating/cooling in a house would work in smaller applications? where the heatpipe would run down to a coil submerged in a fluid.

 

[Gam3r01]

looking at this makes me wondering if something like geothermal heating/cooling in a house would work in smaller applications? where the heatpipe would run down to a coil submerged in a fluid.

Possible? Maybe.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/geothermal-heat-pumps

Using this premise you could in theory transfer heat out, but the smaller you get the more concentrated the heat from said application. So if you are talking a PC sized application, the density might cause a problem compared to ambient air in a room.