Cooling down without Air Conditioners

[ShadowHM]

I just read an interesting article in my local newspaper, about the first residential building that will make use of a new (to Toronto) technology called Deep Lake Water Cooling to replace air conditioners. I am tickled to see a major developer jumping onto this bandwagon, even if it is only for one building, as yet.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...d=1064355913280

The overall Deep Lake Water Cooling project has been on the go for some time, after successfully jumping the environmental assessment hurdles. It will be serving about 100 office towers once up and running (sometime next year). The forecasted cost reductions are substantial, even before the environmental benefits are considered.

More information about the project can be found here.

http://www.enwave.com/enwave/view.asp?/tec...chnology/energy

However, Toronto is not the first on the block for this. According to Scientific American, it has been used by Stockholm since 1995. It certainly is not for every city. Occhi in Texas would be SOL on this one, for example. But there are other places who have high air conditioning loads that are beside deep cold waters.


http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID...B81809EC588EF21