Our favorite corporate-scandal-ridden company TYCO!
On Good Morning America they brought a fishtank full of the chemical -- called "Sapphire" -- and submerged multiple items into it, including a book, a running laptop, and a powered-on TV. They dried in seconds and none of them had any damage.
Topher wrote:This sounds like one of those things that does everything so very, very well that as soon as you step in the room with it you have cancer...
That's awesome.... though I agree with the above.... well hey, it's always worth a try... and how can it put out fires yet at the same time not get a book wet? It seems like both of these depend on the same property of water... though thinking about it I guess not.
[edit] A quote from the article...
There was a substance that had similar properties produced in the past, but that fire suppression liquid was damaging the ozone layer.
Halon, is the spelling your looking for, and yes you do need a mask when your around Halon, it is a Oxygen deprivant, if you inhale too much Halon you coat your lungs with it, and it will eventually asphixiate <--(however you spell that) your body
Paraphrased from Slashdot:
"Forget dry water! What we need is non-burning fires!"
Anyhow, a pretty neat substance. For the record, Tyco is responsible for deploying this as a fire retardant method. The actual substance is manufacturered by your Post-It Note fiends over at 3M.
possibly. considering it evaporates so easily it would be good for a contained evaporative cooling system.
you could submerge the whole PC in it like that guy did with mineral oil. i imaging you'd be topping it up a lot though, with such a high vapour pressure and all some is BOUND to leak out gradually in any do-it-yourself job.
