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Solar Powered Air Conditioner!

Tech Ingredients · demo · Watch on YouTube

Power grid, heating & buildingsRenewables, batteries & storageChemistry

What it is

Tech Ingredients builds a larger solar-powered desiccant air conditioner that uses a calcium chloride liquid desiccant with evaporative cooling to cool their lab. The video includes the engineering calculations.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as a detailed, DIY-able design for desiccant-based cooling.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “did an interesting design for a swamp cooler using liquid desiccants”

    Swamp cooler design using liquid desiccants

    6f8986c3, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “Will Work for Air-Conditioning”

  2. “built a dessicant-based air conditioning system with enough info to DIY one.”

    Desiccant-based AC with enough detail to build one

    sp332, 2023-10 · Recommendation · in “New AC technology uses 60% less energy”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: air conditioning, desiccant, solar, evaporative cooling, diy

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