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Engineering360: "Watch: Liquid-filled window saves energy"

11/09/2020 1:10 PM

Read Engineering360 article: Watch: Liquid-filled window saves energy.

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Re: Watch: Liquid-filled window saves energy

11/09/2020 9:31 PM

Interesting.

Or you can pull the shades. But this might be more appropriate for where shades are not suitable or desirable. I wonder if the water-based liquid ends up making a bunch of condensation on the 'upper' part of the window?

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Re: Watch: Liquid-filled window saves energy

11/10/2020 2:43 AM

I wonder how it would handle the cold winters in higher latitudes. No fear of freezing in Singapore is there!

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Re: Watch: Liquid-filled window saves energy

11/17/2020 9:06 AM

I would rather have a solar (or some transducer) shade, that would also light up the room, as I darken it - by opaque-ing/ closing the shade.

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Re: Watch: Liquid-filled window saves energy

11/17/2020 2:15 PM

I assume the temperature quoted was the outside pane, what was the temperature of the inside pane as this will determine the heat load on the room.

Air is a much poorer conductor of heat than water so this concept does not make much sense unless something special is happening.

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