Hello everyone!
Yesterday I have seen an old Linus' video about janky water cooling systems and he talked about "not mixing metals" and the needed addictives to avoid corrosion and gunk forming.
And I suddenly got a tought: Why industries keep using metal and water for that stuff? They start to crumble to dust in about half hour after first run and in a month you need to pull everything out to clean it otherwise you get clogged tubes.
So... In 2023 we got ceramics that have about same heat conductivity as copper and zero electrical issues along with almost zero corrosion and zero residues in the system.
Since about 3000 years we know alcohol, which is a natural bacteria killer and got an extremely good heat dissipation capability, it would keep the algae out of your loop. Also, it has a way lesser electrical conductivity than water (as I can see from graph).
So... Why we don't have ceramic CPU blocks, glass tubing and alcohol running in the cooling loop? If you are afraid of the alcohol's fumes, just add a simple expansion chamber to control the pressure.
I think that stuff can runn longer with less issues than the standard stuff!
What do you guys think about this?