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Re: Cooling a house with ice



Nick Pine <nick@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu> wrote:

>... Ohm's law for heatflow...  ie Q = delta T x delta t x Area/R-value,
>with Q = 7.8 million = 2,440 Area/R1, so Area = 7,800,000/2440 = 3200 ft^2,
 
>... Let's see, if an auto radiator with a fan can
>get rid of the heat from a gallon of gasoline in an hour, ie 100K Btu/hr, with
>200 F water and 100 F air, that's 1000 Btu/hour/degree F, 1000 times better
>than a square foot of pond surface, so we'd need 320 of them. 

Oops. Perhaps 3.2 of them...

Nick


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