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Old 07-21-2010, 10:00 AM   #35 (permalink)
RobertSmalls
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The calculation I used before I built it was:

Driving burns 163Cal/hr, or 189W of metabolic activity. That's the latent heat of fusion of 4.5lbs of ice per hour assuming an insulated cooler and tubes.

Evidently, somewhere between half and a quarter of my cooling came from melting ice.
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