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Here's a 2016 Nokia blog article about it: https://www.nokia.com/blog/water-cool-new-way-take-heat-base-station-site-energy-costs/ https://www.nokia.com/blog/wa

Here's a 2016 Nokia blog article about it: https://www.nokia.com/blog/water-cool-new-way-take-heat-base-station-site-energy-costs/ https://www.nokia.com/blog/water-cool-new-way-take-heat-base... Besides the video being totally cute I remember Ben Krasnow (Applied Science) mentioning in his video about making liquid air that this was frequently used in mobile base stations. I thought it would perhaps be used for super conductivity, but pretty definitely for cooling (dude in the video says other stations are air cooled). Am I thinking of something else?

PoachedSausage 6y ago
You are correct. 3G BTS systems used Stirling Cryocoolers[0] to cool superconducting microwave filters[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_the_Stirling_engine#Stirling_cryocoolers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applications_of_the_Stirling_e... [1] http://home.eps.hw.ac.uk/~ceejh3/Journals/An%20HTS%20transceiver%20for%20third%20generation%20mobile%20communications.pdf http://home.eps.hw.ac.uk/~ceejh3/Journals/An%20HTS%20transce...