On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:

A laptop nowadays draws 50 to 100 W. I assume future ones will draw ~25 W.
> Imagine a small but intense 50 W heat source powering a thermoelectric
> chip, with a large radiator behind that to spread out the heat. That would
> be doable I think.
>

While I'm sympathetic with the direction of these predictions, they assume
that high power densities can be obtained without the need for thick
radiation shielding.

Eric

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