  Kronos Advanced Technologies claims that's the way we're
headed      Comments     Threshold   Pros and cons of ion
cooling By Guigsy on 1/5/2007 7:31:39 AM , Rating: 2 As
mentioned, InventGeek show you how to make a home-made ionic fan
for a few dollars ( ), but it doesn't look very safe or healthy.
With a normal heatsink, there is a 'skin' of air that's stuck to
the surface of the heatsink. The closer you get to the surface,
the slower the air moves. The more pins, dimples and fins you
add, the worse this effect becomes. The heatsink conducts the
heat into this skin of air, which then conducts it further from
the heatsink until it reaches the wind-blast of your nice big
fan you've got strapped to the top. This skin of air is very
thin, only a few mm, but it insulates your CPU very nicely.  Ion
cooling works by charging up the heatsink so much that the
electrons literally jump off of it into this skin of air. This
electrically charged (ionized) air is then repelled by the
heatsink. This removes the skin ef