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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
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