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To compare to an air conditioner. This device has about 40W of cooling per m2.

Apparently in Australia you should size between 80 and 120 W/m2 of air conditioning (I think this is cooling watts rather than power usage watts) - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.crownpower.com.au/blog/choo...

So that means every square meter of living space needs 2 square meters of radiative cooling (assuming no other passive cooling infrastructure). I suspect you'd see further inefficiencies getting the heat to the passive cooler.

So it's within the same order of magnitude of an ac, but not powerful enough that it would be straightforward to retrofit.

parent leoedin 5 years ago

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