Nice to see their solution evolve. Hope they will make it a proper product that can be mass-produced for cheap.
The problem with these solutions is that this still doesn’t solve the heat problem itself. The amount of heat we produce as a civilization is immense, and moving the problem away from the product is not really fixing the issue of it still being a hot item that costs a lot of energy. If these items get put into products, it will still heat the room a lot and make other things hot that perhaps shouldn’t be. Or simply waste a lot of energy on heat. Something that might not be so bad during the winter, but in the summer it really adds up. You will kinda need to have air conditioning even if its not yet that hot outside.
Don’t worry, these air movers won’t really change the amount of heat a laptop puts out. Besides, I don’t think you have a strong handle on the relative heat outputs. A Macbook Air tops out at like 30 watts. You put out like 80 watts minimum, and can easily go over 1kw if you’re exercising. And of course the sun itself is doing like 1kw/m over the entire earth throughout the day.
If you cool it, it seems to run faster for longer and it draws more power. So more power = more heat.
And I’m not talking about the heat itself, I’m talking about how we make that power. Those airconditioning units during the summer aren’t all powered by solar or wind. They add a lot of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
Nice to see their solution evolve. Hope they will make it a proper product that can be mass-produced for cheap.
The problem with these solutions is that this still doesn’t solve the heat problem itself. The amount of heat we produce as a civilization is immense, and moving the problem away from the product is not really fixing the issue of it still being a hot item that costs a lot of energy. If these items get put into products, it will still heat the room a lot and make other things hot that perhaps shouldn’t be. Or simply waste a lot of energy on heat. Something that might not be so bad during the winter, but in the summer it really adds up. You will kinda need to have air conditioning even if its not yet that hot outside.
Don’t worry, these air movers won’t really change the amount of heat a laptop puts out. Besides, I don’t think you have a strong handle on the relative heat outputs. A Macbook Air tops out at like 30 watts. You put out like 80 watts minimum, and can easily go over 1kw if you’re exercising. And of course the sun itself is doing like 1kw/m over the entire earth throughout the day.
If you cool it, it seems to run faster for longer and it draws more power. So more power = more heat.
And I’m not talking about the heat itself, I’m talking about how we make that power. Those airconditioning units during the summer aren’t all powered by solar or wind. They add a lot of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
If you want to save A/C, then you should go outside yourself, since you’re putting out dramatically more heat than a laptop.
And see what you can do about blotting out the sun, drive that’s what’s really heating us up.
Alright, if you don’t want to discuss it anymore, there’s no need to be dramatic about it.