Whole room cooling Sugggestions

[Nick.Fury]

hello Linus

with the fact your planning an exterior of the house heat ex-changer. i would like to suggest that you forgo the radiator and fans in the eaves for a copper coil loop set in concrete set in the earth

effectively giving you a fan-less  earth sized heat sink .  

[scaryjam823]

hello Linus

with the fact your planning an exterior of the house heat ex-changer. i would like to suggest that you forgo the radiator and fans in the eaves for a copper coil loop set in concrete set in the earth

effectively giving you a fan-less  earth sized heat sink .  

No planning going on, it's already done.

[Rorgash]

its already been made, video is being edited and has been in editing for quite a while now, but its hours upon hours of content so it will probably take quite  a while more

[foxhound590]

not a bad idea but the amount of copper pipe in the ground for that many systems would likely be 100m+ and he dues not have the kind of room to lay it out

[MisterZero]

Not forgetting to mention that this kind of pipe spooling under earth requires you to dig up a metric butt ton of earth in order to put the piping there...
But yeah, you have a potential great point, I will remember that in case I want to make a watercooling thingy for my offices, might be a great idea.
The only thing you should keep in mind is you should test at multiple times of the year what the heat dissipation is, and how the tubing/piping is affected by being burried...
Because if it the winter is means you get a 3kW cooling but in the summer only 0.5kW, it might give you some problems. Also, how do you manage the cooling if in the winter you are able to get you coolant to be sub 0, what happens with the condesnation, you can't deal with it the way Linus could by turning off fans on the rad, your only option would be to have two spools underground, one for winter, and another one for summer in order to cope with the temperature difference between summer and winter.

 

But yeah with a little science behind it, it could be the best option out there for silent PC cooling.

[Nick.Fury]

Not forgetting to mention that this kind of pipe spooling under earth requires you to dig up a metric butt ton of earth in order to put the piping there...

But yeah, you have a potential great point, I will remember that in case I want to make a watercooling thingy for my offices, might be a great idea.

The only thing you should keep in mind is you should test at multiple times of the year what the heat dissipation is, and how the tubing/piping is affected by being burried...

Because if it the winter is means you get a 3kW cooling but in the summer only 0.5kW, it might give you some problems. Also, how do you manage the cooling if in the winter you are able to get you coolant to be sub 0, what happens with the condesnation, you can't deal with it the way Linus could by turning off fans on the rad, your only option would be to have two spools underground, one for winter, and another one for summer in order to cope with the temperature difference between summer and winter.

 

But yeah with a little science behind it, it could be the best option out there for silent PC cooling.

the demands on the pump might require a pond pump or multiple D5's  one push one pull 

[foxhound590]

Not forgetting to mention that this kind of pipe spooling under earth requires you to dig up a metric butt ton of earth in order to put the piping there...

But yeah, you have a potential great point, I will remember that in case I want to make a watercooling thingy for my offices, might be a great idea.

The only thing you should keep in mind is you should test at multiple times of the year what the heat dissipation is, and how the tubing/piping is affected by being burried...

Because if it the winter is means you get a 3kW cooling but in the summer only 0.5kW, it might give you some problems. Also, how do you manage the cooling if in the winter you are able to get you coolant to be sub 0, what happens with the condesnation, you can't deal with it the way Linus could by turning off fans on the rad, your only option would be to have two spools underground, one for winter, and another one for summer in order to cope with the temperature difference between summer and winter.

 

But yeah with a little science behind it, it could be the best option out there for silent PC cooling.

there are places in the uk/europe that use the same technique for heating / cooling  houses. there has been a lot of research in to it you should be able to find documentation on the subject with ways of figuring out the details 

[foxhound590]

the demands on the pump might require a pond pump or multiple D5's  one push one pull 

there are specific pumps for this use case there alot more powerful than anything thats normally used in water cooling. they need to push water 100m or more 

also @Ghost might like this topic

[Nick.Fury]

not a bad idea but the amount of copper pipe in the ground for that many systems would likely be 100m+ and he dues not have the kind of room to lay it out

yes but coiled depending on diameter of piping were talking a 15 meter length of pit or perhaps less if some of it was in a concrete pillar

[Nick.Fury]

there are specific pumps for this use case there alot more powerful than anything thats normally used in water cooling. they need to push water 100m or more 

also @Ghost might like this topic

more powerful pumps may cause their own issues the concept needs research for sure keeping the diameter narrow would help reduce the mass of the water to be moved .

[BaSkA]

No planning going on, it's already done.

its already been made, video is being edited and has been in editing for quite a while now, but its hours upon hours of content so it will probably take quite  a while more

 

I don't think I've seen any kind of "series" on Linus' channel and I wish they could do one this time.

 

Instead of a 15~25min video, why not make 5, 6, 10 who knows how many videos of 6~10 minutes, releasing one every week?

 

If they have footage of the many stages and enough filming time, I would love to watch a "Whole room water cooled" series with up to 10 episodes. It works, creates hype and gives a lot more detail and information on what they did. Would you (ever) do something like this @LinusTech ?

[Nick.Fury]

more powerful pumps may cause their own issues the concept needs research for sure keeping the diameter narrow would help reduce the mass of the water to be moved .

Slick and Linus say they have made a modular system with quick releases allowing any system to be moved/removed using a dc5 in each machine with a little giant pump for global supply

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=little%20giant%20pumps

[Cooleb09]

Nonsense, we need a jet engined powered room watercooler!

Actualy, 1 medium to largish propane tank submerged in a large amount if water, and a few submerged radiators would do it,just a have an arduino hooked up to power the engine on whenever the water is beginning to heat up and notify when the gas is out.