POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 13:17:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: Invisible
Date: 14 Nov 2007 06:00:37
Message: <473ad555$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:

>> I think Cray used propylene glycol (anti freeze) at one point,
>> but I might be mistaken.
>>
> It's a good termal medium. Easily available, cheap, good termal 
> capacity, non-corosive, non-conductive, relatively low dielectric 
> constant to reduce parasitic capacitance. It's very plausible.

I'm a geek, but I am constantly astonished by the other people round here...

(What the heck is a dielectric constant when it's at home??)


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