[64929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cooling systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Wed Nov 5 10:40:09 2003
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: rs@seastrom.com, nanog@nanog.org
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: 05 Nov 2003 10:38:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031104155011.07f16b50@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
google search for "air to air heat exchanger" - there are many
companies that make products that do exactly what you want.
---rob
Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> writes:
> Faced with the prospect once again of significantly higher energy
> prices coming to our region, we want to start to look at better and
> more efficient ways to cool our colocation facility. Right now we
> have several ton of traditional air conditioning units sucking up
> electricity like its free. As winter is approaching, surely there
> must be some computer safe way to take advantage of all that cold
> outside to help contain our energy costs, not to mention be a little
> more environmentally friendly. We were thinking we could circulate
> the air up to the roof and cool it there inside some aluminum ducts
> and then bring it back down. We dont want to just bring in cold air
> as it is quite dirty outside since we are next to a major highway.
> Anyone done anything like this before in a computer room setting ?
>
>
> ---Mike
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> Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400
> Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net
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