"32% more performance": Here's how lithium salts could make your computer run faster, cooler — using a technique that every human being has mastered

Lithium Bromide salt.

Researchers have found that adding salt to computer systems can prevent devices from overheating and boost performance by more than 32%. 

A team at the City University of Hong Kong hope this passive technique, which can be used in electronics, batteries, solar cells, and buildings, relies on moisture desorption from hygroscopic salt solutions. These types of salt cause moisture to condense when the relative humidity is at or below 75% relative humidity.