I truly have enjoyed all the ways you have said 'water'. In a previous life I worked with water cooled power cables. We had to work very hard to keep it pure dihydrogen monoxide because it does have this nasty habit of picking up stray ions. Pure hydrogen hydroxide does not conduct electricity, but you get some ions floating around in there and nasty things tend to happen.
I don't think IBM has the problem with hydric acid coming in contact with conducting material as we did. We had 5000 amps at 600 volts DC running through cables that were basically fine stranded copper immersed in water in a rubber hose. Water went in at about 40 degrees at one end and came out 100 feet later at about 70 degrees. We could take the water that went out the positive line and route it back through the negative line because it was so pure. ________________________________ Christopher Y. Blaicher Senior Software Developer Austin Development Lab phone: 512.340.6154 moble: 512.627.3803 fax: 512.340.6647 10431 Morado Circle Austin, TX 78759 BMC Software -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Z11 - Water cooling? On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:31:05 -0500, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote: >... >> However it's likely to be liquid gas, rather than water. > >Hmmm... probably dihydrogen monoxide. That, or the equally >dangerous hydric acid. >... Or the equally caustic hydrogen hydroxide. Each of them a liquid gas (when not a gassified or solidified liquid). Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
