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Re: Natural home cooling

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Originally Posted by freeztar View Post
Hmmm...well then why are you getting so much heat?
If it's from intermittent light coming in through the foyer windows, then perhaps getting double paned glass or even UV coating would be cheaper? How much do you figure this project will run you?
I'm figuring this project will be a couple hundred $$$ at most. You would pay that much for one energy efficient window. We have 7 windows on the southern side of the house that would need to be replaced.

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I think what you are missing is that the air coming our of your system will be very high humidity due to the temperature gradient being so small. The coils on a AC are very cold, almost freezing and much of the humidity condenses on them Your cooling pipes will not even be close to freezing or even as cold as a glass of cool water so much less water will condense and more of it will be left in the air. You wil be lowering the temp but not so much the moisture so the relative humidity will go up in your house.
That is a very good point, and exactly why I posted here before starting this project. I am sure that the duct/piping will get down to the 50's range, and it will condense water, but perhaps not enough. It might still be worthwhile to run this in conjunction with the AC in order to reduce the amount of time the AC is running...
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