[64939] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: cooling systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Hayden)
Wed Nov 5 14:53:52 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:53:07 -0600 (CST)
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@geek.net>
To: Jeffrey Paul <jeffreypaul@diamondcard.com>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>, "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>,
Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>,
"Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <6262718D3C369148944D18200671A9E525D7@gfmail.groupfinancialllc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I used to have a boiler heating system in my home (wood heat) that used
anti-freeze treated water tpumped from the boiler in the garage through
the house and back. Water is great for moving heat, but you do need to
treat it so it doesn't freeze and burst the pipes.
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Paul wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> > Behalf Of Robert A. Hayden
> > Sent: Wed, 2003-11-05 12:50
> > To: Joe Abley
> > Cc: Neil J. McRae; Mike Tancsa; Robert E. Seastrom; nanog@nanog.org
> > Subject: Re: cooling systems
> >
> >
> >
> > I've seen some designs that actually use water as the transport and
> > many-finned radiators at each end. Radiator transfer heat
> > into cold water
> > inside which is pumped up a radiator in the sub-zero temps on
> > the roof and
> > exchanged and then looped back.
>
> I've never once seen sub-zero water pumped through a tube, except maybe
> on documentaries about the arctic (think core sample). I think it's
> much more likely a different fluid was used.
>
> -j
>
