[64930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cooling systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Krzysztof Adamski)
Wed Nov 5 10:55:19 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:54:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Krzysztof Adamski <k@adamski.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031104155011.07f16b50@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> 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
The R2000 houses have a heat exchanger to recover heat from the air that
is being expelled from the house. Maybe the same device just running in
reverse.
K
