Rocket Fuel Cooled PC
This idea came to me in the midst of watching LTT in the background and probably getting more distracted than I should from whatever task I was doing. However, it combines two of my favorite things/hobbies, Rocketry, and PC hardware.
The Idea: Rocket engines run on an oxidizer and fuel. I have experience designing a rocket engine to use Liquid Oxygen (LOX) and Kerosene (technically Jet-A/RP-1). In some rocket engines, the engine itself is cooled by flowing the propellant through a jacket around the engine to cool it (Regeneratively Cooled). What if you could use the same propellant that is cooling the engine, to also cool a PC. I am trying to walk this line of explaining enough that everyone can understand, but not pissing off knowledgable people by overexplaining. I’ll continue to work on it
Problems to solve: Cooling capacity of Kerosene, mass flow rates involved, size of rocket engine, pressurized pc cooling fittings, duration of operation to prove it works, cost (oh god cost).
But fuck it, I need to do something and get off my ass, so here is this.
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I’ll gladly take any questions at my email max@maxoberg.dev or Twitter/X