On 1/11/06, Paul Drake wrote:
>
> or a 7th grade science class "if a closed room has a refridgerator running
> with the door left open, will the room temperature increase, decrease or
> stay the same".
>
> In both cases, the power company wins and the (system entropy) room
> temperature increases.
>
>
In the interests of science I should add that this is not in fact theory. We
ourselves performed this experimentally with some servers, an (almost)
closed room and a portable aircon unit that didn't in fact vent hot air
outside the room as we had been led to believe, but rather just piped it
into a sealed ceiling space within the room.:( It was oracle6 on SCO though
so probably a mercy killing.
We did melt some ceiling tiles as well mind.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com
Received on Wed Jan 11 2006 - 21:41:40 CST
