Free air cooling uses evaporative coolers. They are not running chillers. Belgium also has a water treatment center bringing in water from an industrial canal for their coolers and thus runs on 100% recycled water.
In Finland, they run heat exchangers with water from the Baltic Sea, again, a chiller-less data center.
Spectator here: I too am so excited about the upcoming launch I have been hanging out for it and wish them the best of luck too (even though luck has nothing to do with it and plain good engineering does).
I read the SpaceX pages, reports and updates with the same excitement I had when I read about the Saturn V, the Apollo craft the Lunar Lander, the Shuttle, and the engineering and esp. the control computers behind and embedded in all those craft.
To be involved with SpaceX, designing systems and writing and testing the software and the hardware systems they control must be very exciting right now. That would be something!
Google: It's important X does not see our super secret servers, how best may we attain that, team?
Team: We suggest we co-locate with X and then turn the lights off - that way they can't see our super secret servers.
Google: Awesome idea!
Some time latter:
Co-Facility: Here come the gogglers with their head lamps, quick turn the lights off.
Co-Facility: They are gone, don't they look great with their LED lights, make a cool movie huh?
Co-Facility: Crikey, here come the X's, quick turn the lights on, oh man it's such a shame they don't have LED head lamps, they would look so cool if they did.
Wow, that was pretty cool. I wonder if the climb to a stall early on in the flight is part of the typical flight profile, and if the design of the aircraft is optimized to deliver that profile. Anyone know?
And there in lies the problem with TOS (or is the problem with the law?) if one needs to be an attorney to understand them, what hope is there for the ordinary folk - just saying. No wonder people just click through.
I like this advice (physical work) and its been in the back of my mind for a while as a way to take a break from the continuous onslaught of pressure to 'keep up' with developments in my craft and to give me time to consolidate what I have learnt in the last 15 year sprint.
Why does agreeing with someone get me down votes? I would have imagined no change. But to feel that strongly that ppl take the trouble to click down - why is that?
