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There are good reasons why tax payers need to fund NASA generously each year.  Usually, the things NASA researches and explores with may not have immediate impact to our daily lives, but soon or later something from NASA will seep into society in a big and positive way!  One perfect example was one of those earliest versions of microchip was developed by Texas Instrument, but the the project was funded by NASA for space program — this unique circumstance was eventually gave birth to modern microchips that we’re using today.  Some people even mention that mobile phone was made possible by NASA!  So, when NASA has announced that it has a working prototype of a cooling system with no moving part that is slim and small as a human finger but yet withstanding extreme heat, some of us probably are amazed but not totally surprised by NASA’s new toy.

This new toy of NASA is known as electrohydrodynamic (EHD) pump, but it does not really relying on any moving part to pump the heat away from certain mechanical devices.  Instead, the pump relies on electric field to work its magic.  To tell the truth, it’s hard to understand how it really works, but NASA isn’t joking about their new toy’s potential.  In fact, NASA is aiming to ever improve EHD technology.  You never know NASA may one day be able to shrink the size of their new toy as small as a grain of sand, and then use variant of it to cool tons of heat from ever heat conducive, small computing devices.  Perhaps, we can use EHD technology to create portable airconditioning such as clothes that channel heat away from humans’ bodies during a super hot summer day.  I don’t know, but it seems this technology has huge potential to me.  In fact, I think everyone is seeing the same thing!  How about you?

Sources:

• http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20066890-1/nasa-to-demonstrate-super-cool-cooling-technology/
• http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09201/985039-51.stm