Re: Uses for diamonds?

Wildepad schrieb:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:44:05 +0100, Robert Martinu
> <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Assuming the faces of the rods are (close to) perfect planes they 
>> joining would conduct heat just as well as a solid piece. The nature of

>> this "waste" would make that quite easy to archive.
>> You could use these rods anywere a liquid cooling is undesireable, say 
>> in nuclear plants to reduce the chance of spilling irradiated coolant
as 
>> well as to increase the operating temperature.
> 
> How large a market is that?

That depends on how much it costs to retool the diamond - replacing the 
heat exchangers in power plants would require maybe a few days or weeks 
of production - doing the same for cars or connecting a computers 
components thermally to the case to allow for silent cooling without 
dust or airflow problems...