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Originally Posted by Hugh R
Won't work. Heat radiates, cold is the absence of heat. Think of a match which you can't too close to, and an ice cube. With A/C you're taking heat away from the space and dumping it somewhere else. I suppose you could put fans behind the radiators, and try and dump the heat somewhere else. You got a big heat sink called the earth. You could run some piping underground a few feet to act as a condensor.
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Heat transfer is the transition of thermal energy or simply heat from a hotter object to a cooler object so if the water in the radiator was cooler than the surrounding air it would cool the air. Now the problems I see are:
- part of the job of an air conditioner is to remove moisture from the air. Where does it go?
- I think the circulation of water in a radiator is steam going up and water going back (gravity not a pump)
I was looking at the AC where I work and there is a massive compressor with a local loop of freon to a refrigerant-water heat exchanger. The chilled water is pumped to the various buildings. There are air handlers (cold water to air heat exchanges) in each area that filter the air and remove moisture.