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Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC
Agg writes "Well the slab gets poured on Wednesday so I thought I would sink 6 meters of copper pipe in the slab so that I can run my water loop through it when the house is finished. I hope to have water year round at about 16deg [about 61F]. No need for radiators or fans with chilled water coming straight out of the slab!"
Just don't plan on being able to move your desk.
Copper would be a waste of money tho. Use one of the many types of plastic hose already made for this application.
Yes, because plastic is a muuch better conductor for heat than say, copper.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
since those aren't degrees.
Without proper thermal throttling, your roof could come off, even with a passive heatsink.
I think Antec makes a two-story-high fan that might work perfectly in such a situation, but the neighbors might be bothered by the LEDs.
Oh you definitely want to tell the new owner what it is. Though, the thought of someone finding the tubes and digging up the foundation to find out where they're connected to the water main only to find out they are just a giant loop is kinda funny.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
That first link is so bizarre, sitting within a post which otherwise seems very logical. My brain is short circuiting as it tries to find the connection between underground piping and spinach pizza.
I got a bunch of raised eyebrows when I had two four-gang electrical outlets (one from either leg of the house power) and an exhaust vent fan installed in one of my closets when we built our house. I wanted it for a server farm but couldn't convince anyone that I wasn't going to be farming something else.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
I assume you meant to use a period. Commas haven't ended sentences since; well. ever?
Well, your habit of using the acronym "THC/IP" did rather give the game away....
Or sell the house to Ted Stevens and tell him that's where his Internet comes out of.
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Please please please mod this informative with all your might.
Please don't use "umm" or "err" or "erm".
We did the same thing with WiFi.
Yeah, that 6m of copper tubing will probably make the house explode, right?
Depends on what it gets filled with.
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I imagine a cartoon-like scenario, of a curious party feeding a flexible snake into one end of the pipe, trying to feel out how far it goes before terminating, only to have it come out the other end and poke them in the butt.
Apparently I'm 5 years old.
damn SE always ruining an Architects fun .... :)
So the solution is to wait six months and then buy a wireless heat sink?
You've obviously never been lied to about birth control then.
I dunno; I've been in two houses where the floor slab has been ripped open and partially re-poured.
My parent's house, when we put a basement bathroom in, needed the slab ripped out around the drain lines for the new drain connections.
My current house has new slab in the front 1/3d of the basement, where the furnace and hot water tank are. I don't know what was wrong with the old concrete, but in the rest of the basement, you've got to be careful with the broom or you sweep up concrete instead of just dust and dirt.
It's only the slab, not the foundation (footings and wall). Breaking the footings open, that's bad. Undermining the footings, that's bad.
Floor slab? This way to the drains....
Besides, if the pipes fail, cut the ends flush with the slab, plug with mortar, and get on with your life. That's what they did with the old natural gas supply pipe; it's cut and plugged on both the inside and outside, where it used to go to the city main.
Come to think of it, they did the same thing with the oil tank fill and breather pipes at my parents when we had the oil furnace removed. (Very important to plug the filler side, especially if the oil company doesn't get the cancel notice to the delivery truck....)
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There. Fixed that for you.
P.S. No, I don't think I'm clever.*
* I preemptively agree that I'm not clever.
exchanging the heat through plastic into a concrete biomass should work just fine.
For the typical house built on top of a concrete mass, exchanging heat with it may work fine.
But if your house is built on on top of a concrete biomass, RUN! IT'S ALIVE!! RUN!!!
Now that's a protocol I can endorse! How many grams per second do you typically get when downloading? Is there a flat monthly fee? What are good ISPs* that don't do traffic shaping? Is it easy to encrypt your packets and do you have to pay extra for the aluminum foil/scent resistant wrapper? Can you download across state lines? Or even from Ethiopia?
*Indica Service Providers
Download speeds depend on hardware. Toking ring is somewhat outdated, you were probably all using that back in high school; but still works ok. Ethernet isn't actually that much faster; but the ether has synergistic effects.
While we all appreciate the thoughtful and incisive commentary on the appropriate symbol for "feet", I must humbly point out you misspelled "apostrophe", which has the unfortunate effect of putting your credibility as a master of punctuation in some... doubt.
But yes, since Slashcode fails to recognize ANY of the HTML4 entities for "prime" , we will have no choice but to fall back on that ancient artifact of the bygone typewriter era: the apostrophe key. I blame GP commentor's lamentable faux pas in choosing the wrong key on a lack of training in typewriter keyboarding. This modern computer keyboarding is an anarchic madhouse of unregulated freedom and undisciplined overabundance of choices. It's good to have the leadership and mentorship of those who know better, in order to provide guidance to youngling slashdotters. Thank you, evilbessie.
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I'm maybe moving to a house that has a cellar with a well in it, an active one that water flows through, so the cellar is damp and maybe slightly cooler than normal.
Would the cellar not automatically act as a sort of cheap ground source heat pump, in terms of equalisizing the temperature of the rooms above it?
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You're an idiot.
Seriously.
Don't post here anymore.
Whoa damn, Brigadier (12956), you just got served!
Then you just need to find a way to get the ground you're dumping heat into to move about and do the same. The solution is quite simple, really: build your data center around, or on top of, a volcano! The constantly circulating lava in the underground magma chambers will dump all the heat you can put out far away from your now smoldering data center.
Let me guess: This guy worked on NASA's Mars orbiter.