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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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Not at all. And the first few sentences are completely wrong. Heat will radiate from the objects in the room (including you) to the exchanger that is full of fluid. Heat will also convect to the exchanger.
It will work, but is not practical. You would need a good working fluid as the fluid temperature would need to be quite low.
The idea to use the earth as a sink is a good one and such systems are all the rage now. They are not practical unless you are building a new house and have an excavator out there anyway - they dig trenches and lay piping, then cover it all over.