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Chemistry For Your Life
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The Benefits of a Swamp Cooler
There's something called swamp coolers that they use primarily, like in the desert. And it essentially just blows air over water and that water has a higher heat capacity which can basically take in the heat without heating itself up too much. In the same way, you get a cool breeze off of the ocean sometimes. It just cools it down. There's also something similar with heat pumps, which I've watched some videos about is a specific way of doing that using the the earth to stay cool when it's hot or warm.
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