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quickthrowman 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air tempe...

I’m confused. Rejecting one GW of heat to the building exterior with heat exchangers is going to heat up the area around the heat exchangers.

If you had a hypothetical 1 GW generator and used a hypothetical 1 GW loadbank with 1 GW of resistive heating and a fan that was outdoors, the air temperature would rise.

adamsb6 34 days ago [–]

The air temperature would rise near the heat source, and that hot air would rise in a plume and disperse, not seep out laterally.

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