Breakthrough in Air-Cooling Technology
Sandia National Laboratories has developed a fundamental breakthrough in air-cooling technology. Potential applications include electronics, LEDs, appliance cooling, HVAC, and more.
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00:00:20 the sandia cooler is a breakthrough in cooling technology a completely novel and different approach to cooling that could make a dramatic impact in a number of areas there's a possibility could be applied to a wide range of applications air conditioning is is an obvious one led lighting
00:00:41 cooling for led lighting is another we get about a factor of 10 increase in cooling efficiency compared to the best coolers on the market right now sandy is the largest national lab department of energy national lab in the united states we have two locations we have a big campus in albuquerque new mexico where
00:01:00 there's about 8 000 employees and we have about a thousand employees here at the sandia california san diego livermore site even this place you're in today is part of something we call the livermore valley open campus a partnership between sandia lawrence livermore to make us more accessible to industry large
00:01:22 industries small industry and academia at industry day we invited companies that would buy the technology companies that would manufacture and sell the technologies and venture capitalists that would help startup companies get to the point where they would be able to market and sell the technology the objectives really for today i think
00:01:44 you all are here primarily to really see the technology to you know see uh jeff and his team present that and see the demonstration the second objective that we would really like to get is to have kind of all of us collaboratively think about how to accelerate commercialization of
00:02:05 this technology our interest number one is to get this technology out into the marketplace and make an impact on the us we're very interested in enabling your success basically in commercializing this product we're just about ready to sign option to license in the led area and we have four
00:02:32 companies here today who are interested in the chip cooling area and one company in the led cooling area you know size and weight and reliability and noise are all key factors something that i worked on for a number of years is the led headlight for the automotive market and that continues to be a very interesting area
00:02:55 this is small doesn't weigh much seems like it can be sold and manufactured at a pretty low cost point and the level of noise is pretty impressive so there's a lot of things that make this very interesting for the board level application as well as the led lighting application one of the challenges for leds is cooling
00:03:20 leds need to dissipate their heat and smaller more compact lighter robust solutions are always of interest in the led business you know it convinced me that this is something that you know we should take a very very serious look at and now that i have it's got some tremendous potential so i'm
00:03:41 excited about following through applications like this that have huge opportunities and huge impact to not only our region but more broadly across the international scale when we see sandia technologies being driven towards commercial opportunities it's those kind of exciting things that really help us here in livermore as well
00:04:02 as the laboratories start to really create new opportunities you