THE VIDEO SHELF · desiccant air conditioning
Solar Powered Air Conditioner!
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 HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a detailed, DIY-able design for desiccant-based cooling.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tech Ingredients
- Topic
- desiccant air conditioning
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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TechIngredients did an interesting design for a swamp cooler using liquid desiccants: [VIDEO] Haven't yet built one myself, but it looks like a sensible design for climates that aren't overly humid.
6f8986c3 on Hacker News · 2021-06
In Will Work for Air-ConditioningTech Ingredients on YouTube built a dessicant-based air conditioning system with enough info to DIY one. [LINK] and a full-scale test [VIDEO]
sp332 on Hacker News · 2023-10
In New AC technology uses 60% less energy
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