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Subject:Re: Water Cooler System Design Flaw Workaround?
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:38:46 -0400

At 09:58 PM 4/25/2010, Tom Hargrave wrote:
>Your logic is flawed - you are considering instantaneous and not continuous
>heat transfer. The coolant is circulating and heat is being continuously
>pulled off through the radiator.

I'll have to think about that for a bit.  My intuition says that
that's a steady-state condition and can be more-or-less ignored for
the current situation.  And the radiator gets less efficient as the
coolant temperature gets lower.

Yrs,
David