Geothermal Heat Pumps Keep Cell Tower Cool (Cornell Chronicle)
In the March/April GRC Bulletin we published an article by 2013 GRC Scholarship Winner Koenraad Beckers and Jefferson Tester on Utilizing Geothermal Heat Pumps to Provide Cooling for Cellular Towers - Demonstration Project at Cornell University.
Here the Cornell Chronicle sheds a little more light on the partnership with Verizon Wireless on finding a solution to help cool cell-phone tower equipment.
A cell phone tower on Cornell’s campus is doubling as a laboratory to study a ground-sourced cooling system for telecommunications equipment.
In collaboration with Verizon Wireless, Cornell engineers led by graduate student Koenraad Beckers are testing a geothermal heat pump system to control the climate of cellular tower shelters. Already in many homes, geothermal heat pumps use stable underground temperatures to provide efficient space and water heating or cooling.
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