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Knowing very little about HVAC, when I worked in higher education I was surprised to learn that some colleges centralize heating and cooling for their entire ca
by evanelias 4y ago
Knowing very little about HVAC, when I worked in higher education I was surprised to learn that some colleges centralize heating and cooling for their entire campus. For example, Harvard has a chilled water plant which cools 75 buildings: https://www.energyandfacilities.harvard.edu/utilities/chilled-water https://www.energyandfacilities.harvard.edu/utilities/chille...
Interesting article from the Crimson (student newspaper) from 1978 about their recent-at-the-time move to computerize the heating and cooling systems: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1978/1/12/the-great-chilled-water-bazaar-or/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1978/1/12/the-great-chill...
Edit: fixed unintentionally humorous typo, whoops
- googlryas 4y agoYou know Harvard's endowment is getting too big when they go out and buy Ganymede.
- elil17 4y agoFYI, when that webpage says "tons" they mean the capacity to freeze a ton of water in one day. So Harvard's CWPs can move enough energy to freeze 20,500 tons of water a day - absolutely humongous!