I was taught from the very beginning of my design-build career to always start with a system flow diagram. The phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” doesn’t do justice to the true value of a ...

Could you explain the concept of controlling water speed and how it affects the cooling system? First of all, controlling water speed is not something a lot of attention is paid to. What I mean by ...

Illustration by Sarah Cheney. Imagine a home in which the temperature is always comfortable, yet the heating and cooling system is out of sight. That system performs efficiently but doesn’t require ...

Maybe the problem was born in design - overestimating pump head, or a cooling tower that isn’t towering enough. Or it arose in installation - say, misconnected coils. Even then, a fix may create a new ...

Heat dissipation is a problem when running computers for long periods of time, and the typical approach is to cool chips using air or coolant. Google's gigantic data centers use large-scale liquid ...