SLIC: Single-phase, Liquid Immersion Cooling for Cryptocurrency & BlockChain
Just came across this special system called SLIC while researching about the "Coolant CPU" terminology. It is wondering how they have engineered this synthetic component and making it possible to mine with low heats, high efficiency of the miners and obviously reduced electricity paycheck!
Though it seems this system is only for the big farms and not the solo miners. The documentation clearly shows pictures of heavy duty pumps that will be sole system pumping Synthetic coolant from all the immersed miners and carrying away their heats.
However, everything comes at a cost too. Setting up this system and placing your miners in it is tedious work. What is more inconvenient in this system is, the space utilized by these heat sink tanks. They are huge and are placed apart from each other to run the fluid piping network around them.
I am not how feasible is this but number of advantages are also equally balanced.
Key Points:- Coolant has more than 1,600x the heat density of air
- Safely overclock your miner’s hashrate
- Lack of noise (by cutting those fans)
By far the system looks way simplified with those segregated tanks. Properly wired channels, and removed fans make it way simpler. Obviously it entirely depends on the space and miners available and by far it seems for mega projects only.
The second image is holding tank and also pumping system which makes it giant project considering it will also add up lot of value to the mining operation as initial investment. Not sure about the maintainer cost, but this could end up as profitable only if system does fail in between.
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Single-phase, Liquid Immersion Cooling for Cryptocurrency & BlockChain