 Nickel Computer Cooling SolutionPosted 12:25AM 10 July 2004 The Problem Currently in mid-summer and without proper air conditioning airflow, my room can get very hot during the day. Up to 82.3°F on a very hot day. Recently my laptop has began crashing due to the over-the-recommended-temperature-range temperature. To solve this problem, I first did a little research. The Research Throughout the school year, I buy lunch just about every day. Lunch is $1.60. I usually pay with two dollars, so the lunch lady gives me one quarter, one dime, and one nickel in change. I save and deposit the quarters, lose the dimes, and keep all the nickels in a coffee cup on my shelf. After visiting "Enchanted Learning," I learned that the U.S. nickel is actually 75% copper. I knew that copper was extremely conductive. In other words, it can easily capture heat or coolness. Copper is even a common material for wiring because of this conductivity of energy. The Solution I created 3 types of arrays (What's an array? See the picture in the media section). Each is custom fit and taped together to be placed over one of three parts of the laptop computer. There are two sets of the 3 types of arrays, and are repetatively placed in the freezer for 30 minutes. The "active" set is placed on the laptop during non-use for 30 minutes. I'm using HDD Temperature 1.1 to monitor the hard disk drive temperatures. Data Analysis and Conclusions 
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