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Originally Posted by Arminius
I saw this on Living With Ed once:
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That's the thing I remembered.
The biggest limitation to the technique is your local climate. Evaporative cooling is dependent on the local humidity. If it's hot and humid outside, as I suspect most of the midwest is during the summer, then it will not work very efficiently. The southwest, where it is often hot and dry, allows the latent heat of vaporization of water to absorb energy from the air.
Great ideas about the shade and portable wall unit...I hadn't thought of those.
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Originally Posted by dremd
I want to do something heat excange related direct to the freon pipes...
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That got me thinking. I know at least one freon tube is routed to my house above ground. It is only insulated with a degraded foam sleeve. Wouldn't the efficiency go up by:
1.) Shading the pipe from direct sunlight?
2.) Increasing the quality and quantity of insulation around the pipe?
If your "geothermal" method works, be sure to post about it.
- LostCause