[41181] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Aug 30 19:00:10 2001
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> see "Pelletier Effect" devices. Thermos made a portable ice-box, using that
> tech, for a while. It's all solid-state, no moving parts.
They are interesting, but what they are is merely heat pumps; you also
need to carry the heat away with the flow of some material (eventualy to
be pumped outside of the building). [Radiative cooling is not really
applicable for the required rates of heat transfer; it'd require equipent
to be hot way past the point of melting :)]
--vadim
