Inside the Deep Freeze

5 responses to “Inside the Deep Freeze”

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   jurvetson

   May 21, 2013 at 6:23 am

   Warren shows us the new computer bays
   

   Helium-3 is the key. In front of Bay 19
   

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   Investors have a superposition of likes
   

   and photos from the board meeting

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   Jim Rees

   May 21, 2013 at 6:23 pm

   I didn’t know anything about Helium-3 and had to look it up. Although it occurs in nature, most of it is manufactured from dismantled nuclear weapons. Swords into ploughshares!

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   P^2 – Paul

   May 21, 2013 at 7:26 pm

   Helium *3*? Good heavens. No wonder they want backup power. Helium 4 is hard enough to keep around and expensive enough to want to. Helium 3 multiplies your problems at least thousandfold. That looks like a 500L Dewar, so would contain several million dollars of liquid He-3. I’m guessing they use cheap(er) He-4 to get to 4.2K and the He-3 only in the last stage of cooling.

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   Jim Rees

   May 21, 2013 at 8:16 pm

   But at least they save some money on shipping, since it weighs less.

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   Lars Plougmann

   May 22, 2013 at 3:12 am

   Jim’s most recent comment made me look for the LOL button in the new flickr.

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