Toxic sinks

Optimal Finned Heat Sinks

In a multi-board computer system, the volume allocated for heat removal is often a significant fraction of the total system volume. Cooling requirements can thus impact performance, reliability, cost, acoustic noise, and floorspace. This work addresses the volume costs or space requirements for removing heat with optimally designed finned heat sinks. Simple formulas applicable to both gas and l...

Territorial Rights and Carbon Sinks

Scholars concerned with abuses of the "resource privilege" by the governments of developing states sometimes call for national sovereignty over the natural resources that lie within its borders. While such claims may resist a key driver of the "resource curse" when applied to mineral resources in the ground, and are often recognized as among a people's territorial rights, their implications dif...

Helium Cooled Tungsten Heat Sinks

Accidental scald burns in sinks.

Scald burns to the feet and lower extremities in children are described in the literature as often resulting from forced immersions. This report illustrates 3 cases of burns whose distribution and historical factors identify them as accidental. The location of these accidental burns is similar to those found in inflicted injury, but the patterns were indicative of flowing water burns, not force...

Uncertain sinks in the shrubs.

alancing the global carbon budget just got more difficult. For decades, there has been debate over what happens to the carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of tropical rainforests. About half of it accumulates in the atmosphere 1,2 , prompting concerns about global warming. The ocean and land take up the rest, acting as carbon sinks, and understanding where and ...