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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: rack power question, and a prediction about "direct heat removal" (DHR)
> My guess is that someone will come up with an inexpensive, > reliable way to put a heat collector, which will basically > look like a car radiator the size of a rear rack door, > directly behind the hot air coming from the systems in the rack. > b) air is a lousy way to transfer heat away > from where you want it to be compared to other materials. So how did you propose to get the heat from the equipment to the car-radiator door? The idea of making the entire room into a refrigerator by bringing coolant to the racks is a good one, but I think that for this to be successful, more attention needs to be paid to physical placement of things, and the chillers need to be broken open. By that I mean that chillers cease to be a big box at the edge of the room because they are now part of the room itself. Think of a flat chiller attached to the ceiling with spaces for racks to be inserted into it. --Michael Dillon
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