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google search for "air to air heat exchanger" - there are many
companies that make products that do exactly what you want.
---rob
Mike Tancsa <[email protected]> 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, [email protected]
> Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net
> Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike
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