Water cooling

Modern materials science has advanced to the point where comfort and protection can both be achieved without compromising either function.

The liquid cooling garment is perhaps the most ingenious component of modern spacesuits.

It is a spandex undergarment, threaded with small plastic tubing, through which water circulates.

This water is cooled as it passes through the suit's life support backpack.

The astronaut should always have a way to get home safely, even if systems fail during a spacewalk.

Water cooling circulation is the next major system in the PLSS.

The liquid cooling garment is worn under the spacesuit.

Water flows through tubes in this garment, circulating around the astronaut's body to remove excess heat.

Yeah, so Lindsay Schultz, Global Principal Technologist at Equinix.

So I really focus on customer liquid cooling deployments specifically, and I work really closely with our product management teams on developing the liquid cooling offering, as well as with our design and construction teams on How are we going to implement liquid cooling into our facilities moving forward? So that's kind of my role here.

And then my background is I actually have a degree in biochemistry.

Amazing.

And I kind of had a roundabout way of getting to where I am at Equinix.

But I really like working on liquid cooling because there is a chemistry aspect to it.

So it's sort of come full circle for me.

There is.

And I think it's, I think it's a great element of an overall strategy, but it was also, I'm not investing one more dollar in touring.

And I'm like, what are you kidding me? And, um, and then all that technical drive to add liquid cooling, and we're going to get rid of the Sportster.

I think there was, there's just so much to work with there where you could have evolved that.

And you had, you had all of the aftermarket.

That's why everyone does it.

And I was just gonna suggest that the historical update is that when we had to cool the head with, uh, air, and we splayed the valve stems at a very wide angle to make, allow airflow, what have we essentially settled on now? Because we have liquid cooling, we can put the stems, like, parallel almost always.

Practically parallel, yes.

Practically-

Why don't we just make it easier to ride? No.

That's, that's not the recipe.

Now, uh, along comes 1976, and another Honda positive bomb, liquid cooling on the flat four, um, Gold Wing, the first Gold Wing.

Now, it had to have liquid cooling because you had, uh, cylinders one ahead of the other on either side of the machine.