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Solar Powered Air Conditioner!

Tech Ingredients · 2.2M views · 2019-09-20 · 29:57

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Overview

Tech Ingredients builds a larger solar-powered desiccant air conditioner that uses a calcium chloride liquid desiccant with evaporative cooling to cool their lab. The video includes the engineering calculations.

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HN points to it as a detailed, DIY-able design for desiccant-based cooling.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2023

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Power grid, heating & buildingsRenewables, batteries & storageChemistry
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air conditioningdesiccantsolarevaporative coolingdiy

What people said

sp332 · 2023-10 · Recommendation

Tech Ingredients on YouTube built a dessicant-based air conditioning system with enough info to DIY one. [LINK] and a full-scale test [VIDEO]

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6f8986c3 · 2021-06 · Recommendation

TechIngredients did an interesting design for a swamp cooler using liquid desiccants: [VIDEO] Haven't yet built one myself, but it looks like a sensible design for climates that aren't overly humid.

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WaitWaitWha · 2022-07 · Reference

An evaporative cooling solution by "Tech Ingredients" seems to be more efficient (correct me if I am wrong) [0] [VIDEO]

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