Comment by estimator7292 2 months ago Please google "datacenter evaporative cooling" and then re-evaluate 3 comments estimator7292 Reply 15155 2 months ago Whoa: is this the only possible form of cooling?What if there were a cooler that somehow didn't evaporate water, you might even call it a "dry cooler" - that would be a sweet invention. This might even be required in areas where adiabatic cooling isn't effective (humid climates)! MathMonkeyMan 2 months ago Even if the ambient relative humidity is near 100%, water's latent heat of vaporization is nothing to shake a stick at.I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging. 15155 2 months ago Nobody is talking about a giant ground-exchange heat pump: liquid-to-air dry coolers exist and are used everywhere. Adiabatic cooling is just cheaper.
15155 2 months ago Whoa: is this the only possible form of cooling?What if there were a cooler that somehow didn't evaporate water, you might even call it a "dry cooler" - that would be a sweet invention. This might even be required in areas where adiabatic cooling isn't effective (humid climates)! MathMonkeyMan 2 months ago Even if the ambient relative humidity is near 100%, water's latent heat of vaporization is nothing to shake a stick at.I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging. 15155 2 months ago Nobody is talking about a giant ground-exchange heat pump: liquid-to-air dry coolers exist and are used everywhere. Adiabatic cooling is just cheaper.
MathMonkeyMan 2 months ago Even if the ambient relative humidity is near 100%, water's latent heat of vaporization is nothing to shake a stick at.I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging. 15155 2 months ago Nobody is talking about a giant ground-exchange heat pump: liquid-to-air dry coolers exist and are used everywhere. Adiabatic cooling is just cheaper.
15155 2 months ago Nobody is talking about a giant ground-exchange heat pump: liquid-to-air dry coolers exist and are used everywhere. Adiabatic cooling is just cheaper.
Whoa: is this the only possible form of cooling?
What if there were a cooler that somehow didn't evaporate water, you might even call it a "dry cooler" - that would be a sweet invention. This might even be required in areas where adiabatic cooling isn't effective (humid climates)!
Even if the ambient relative humidity is near 100%, water's latent heat of vaporization is nothing to shake a stick at.
I like the idea of a giant heat pump into the ground, but heat exchangers are expensive and so is digging.
Nobody is talking about a giant ground-exchange heat pump: liquid-to-air dry coolers exist and are used everywhere. Adiabatic cooling is just cheaper.