Electronic devices consume energy to operate, and a significant part of that energy is dedicated to cooling the electronic components, especially the processors that perform the calculations.
If we look inside our personal computer, we will see that there is a heatsink placed on the calculation chip, and some fan to extract part of the heat to the outside. Because heat kills electronic components.
In the case of large server systems and other computer systems, it is estimated that they consume 20% of the electrical energy we consume, and reducing that consumption is an important priority.
Researchers have discovered a hydrogel that absorbs moisture, and if placed around critical electronic components, when heated, it expels the moisture it had absorbed and lowers its temperature. And that way the component is refrigerated.
Today, a lot of electrical energy is used to cool electronic equipment, and also a large amount of water. The use of this hydrogel (and other similar ones that may appear) would significantly reduce this consumption, and we would all win.
In some tests carried out on an electronic circuit, the heat sink like the current ones reduced the temperature of the component by 8ºC, and in the same circuit the hydrogel reduced it by 20ºC. The difference is more than appreciable.
Sometimes simple procedures are the ones that produce the best results, because the simpler they are, the fewer problems they cause.
As is often said: the best is the enemy of the good. And the simpler it is, the better.
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