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Thread: Why aren't we cooling our homes with tap water?

post 1610518481 07-13-2020, 09:10 PM
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Why aren't we cooling our homes with tap water?

I was just thinking this. It gets up to 95-100 degrees here regularly this summer and I was washing my hands indoors. The tap water comes out of the ground and isn't more than 72-75 degrees. And my AC unit which cost hundreds of dollars of electricity per month to run struggles to keep my place under 80 during the day. And we know water has a very high heat capacity, meaning it takes a lot of energy to change the temp of water.

So why the FUK aren't we cooling our homes with this? Imagine a long hose/pipe system that snaked all through your house that connects the tap faucet to the drain, so that by the time the water drains it's been heated up. Water heating up = home cooled down

Somebody take this idea to shark tank now
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post 1610518851 07-13-2020, 09:17 PM
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post 1610518921 07-13-2020, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted By Dontoewsmebro⏩
Because that ain't tap water it's Brawndo.
Relax bro I'm not trying to turn my house into an igloo
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post 1610518941 07-13-2020, 09:18 PM
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post 1610518991 07-13-2020, 09:18 PM
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Why not cool our houses with milk think about it milk taken out of the fridge is super cold and it is technically free to make milk cold since that area of your fridge will be cold regardless
post 1610519011 07-13-2020, 09:18 PM
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post 1610519061 07-13-2020, 09:19 PM
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its called a swamp cooler n yeah its great
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post 1610519091 07-13-2020, 09:19 PM
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it would probably be expensive af to run water constantly through your house all day
post 1610519561 07-13-2020, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted By 8pieces⏩
it would probably be expensive af to run water constantly through your house all day
Idk man, it would take a lot of cubic feet of air to heat up a gallon of water by say a 5 degree temperature difference. One gallon of tap water is a fraction of a penny. So I don't think you would actually need that much of a flow.
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post 1610520151 07-13-2020, 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted By RobParks2M⏩
its called a swamp cooler n yeah its great
Not talking about evaporative cooling, that wouldn't work here anyway the humidity is too high. The water would travel through the house in closed pipes/hoses
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post 1610520691 07-13-2020, 09:39 PM
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Evaporative Cooler

post 1610520841 07-13-2020, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted By AriesTH⏩
Interesting replies in this thread. My initial thought was the danger of having one pipe leak or something like that and causing a ton of damage, maybe the risk vs reward wasn't worth it, but other people have brought up some cool points.
Your home already has a pipe system to bring water to each of your bathrooms/kitchen, and its under pressure to make the water flow up the walls. This wouldn't need pressure so it would be even less likely to leak
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post 1610520951 07-13-2020, 09:41 PM
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Swamp cooler work best in dry climates. I use one in Ohio to cool i my garage and its ok but not great when its humid.
post 1610520991 07-13-2020, 09:42 PM
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Water holds both heat and cold a lot. It'd do more harm than good if it began as hot. A common way to save refrigerator electricity is to fill it with water and ideally never remove. Takes a while to heat but holds cold well.
post 1610521121 07-13-2020, 09:43 PM
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Tap water is not cold enough. Some buildings do use chilled water fan coils, but they have chillers that cool the water to 40 degrees EWT or so with about a 15 degree delta. 72 degree EWT wouldnt be at all effective.
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Originally Posted By SaviorSelfJT⏩
Your home already has a pipe system to bring water to each of your bathrooms/kitchen, and this one is under pressure to make the water flow up the walls. This wouldn't need pressure so it would be even less likely to leak
You would need to be circulating the water all of thew time or the water would warm up to the temperature of the room. That would use a lot of electricity.
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Originally Posted By badbart⏩
You would need to be circulating the water all of thew time or the water would warm up to the temperature of the room. That would use a lot of electricity.
Having the water warm up to the temp of the room is exactly the goal. That means heat transferred from the room to the water. Then it needs to be drained and replaced with fresh cool water

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Geothermal heating and cooling systems already exist.

And they are all need electricity to run. A self reliant system would be a geothermal heat pump that runs on solar, my dude.
post 1610521581 07-13-2020, 09:48 PM
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They do. It’s called a swamp cooler. It’s not effective. My grandfather had one. On 100 degree days it’s 85 degrees indoors
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Originally Posted By plsunbanwincel⏩
Your AC itself already uses a much better refrigerant than water.
Of course, water isn't compressible so it would fry your AC unit instantly if you loaded it with water instead of refrigerant
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Originally Posted By Frenulum⏩
Why not cool our houses with milk think about it milk taken out of the fridge is super cold and it is technically free to make milk cold since that area of your fridge will be cold regardless
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Originally Posted By plsunbanwincel⏩
Cool your house with thot bathwater imo.
I already ran up my onlyfans budget for this month, so thats out of the question
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