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February 2003
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Re: Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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Sun, 23 October 2005 04:53
 
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what you're proposing is how many large building cooling systems work - they chill down water, pipe that down to various floors, then use the cool water to chill air flows.
they obviously do it on a much larger scale and many (like the shitbox thing i work in on George Street) have very cold water and produce such cold air that it has to mixed with outside air to lift it to a non-freezing tempreture.
downside is that you need a lot of cold water - hence the energy bill (or cooling effort) to chill down the water is significant. fwiw, i asked about keeping the air on for a weekend on my floor of a 24story building and was told that they'd need one of two chiller plants running and the bill would be $hundreds. fuck that.
anyway, i digress... if you had a large mass of waterthat you kept cool then using a recirculating might work - but your talking about something the size of hot water system.
The cheapest thing i could thing of would be a large keg(s) of water in a fridge that feeds a radiator infront of a fan - circulate the water from the radiator to/from the keg. The larger the volume of water in the fridge, the better. You could use a cheap garden waterfall pump to circulate the water.
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Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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ndgcpr | Sun, 23 October 2005 01:21 |
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h3ff44 | Sun, 23 October 2005 01:36 |
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toof | Sun, 23 October 2005 01:56 |
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ndgcpr | Sun, 23 October 2005 02:03 |
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shinybluesteel | Sun, 23 October 2005 02:23 |
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michaelhaynes110 | Sun, 23 October 2005 09:30 |
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ndgcpr | Sun, 23 October 2005 10:27 |
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ndgcpr | Sun, 23 October 2005 02:29 |
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Re: Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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thechuckster | Sun, 23 October 2005 04:53 |
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Re: Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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ndgcpr | Sun, 23 October 2005 07:09 |
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Re: Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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h3ff44 | Sun, 23 October 2005 08:04 |
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Re: Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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48xmax | Sun, 23 October 2005 08:31 |
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Re: Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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Cool1 | Sun, 23 October 2005 09:02 |
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Re: Are intercoolers and radiators the same thing?
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h3ff44 | Sun, 23 October 2005 09:15 |
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brett_celicacoupe | Sun, 23 October 2005 10:08 |
