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Unread 05-20-2012, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Bend, Oregon
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Default Evaporative Cooling ?

Does Evaporative Cooling (swamp cooler) work good in Central Oregon?
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Unread 05-20-2012, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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Does Evaporative Cooling (swamp cooler) work good in Central Oregon?
Oh yeah. A swamp cooler will give you 20 degrees of cooling most days, and on hot dry days in mid summer it will do better than that. Finding soft water to run it might be a problem.
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Unread 05-20-2012, 07:45 PM
 
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Does Evaporative Cooling (swamp cooler) work good in Central Oregon?
It works very well - that's one of the reasons why Facebook located their data center in Prineville:

"If the air is too cold for the servers, they can heat it up — using hot air that has already come off the servers themselves — and if the outside air is too hot, they can cool it down with evaporated water."

The whole story: Welcome to Prineville, Oregon: Population, 800 Million | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

This whole video is interesting, but if you are impatient, he starts to explain the cooling system at 3:45:


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