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On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:37:15 +0200, gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoo com> wrote:
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> I had an argument with someone who was apparently an insider in the
> industry about passive solar cooling. He couldn't describe it to me
> in a way that didn't seem to be a gross violation of physics. It
> sounded like a heat pipe, where you heat up one end, but then because
> some heat is naturally flowing, extra heat decides to come along for
> the ride. That just didn't seem to float. I did some googling and
> the only thing I could find was the use of electric fans powered by
> solar cells.
>
> Any ideas what is physically going on here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_chimney
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