Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | It's August so any shop work that has been done lately involved a lot of sweating. The only way to cool the shop is to leave the doors open all night and try to keep them closed in the day, at least until the inside gets unbearable without airflow. Not ideal. I don't want to spend what AC would cost, but it sure would be nice to be a little cooler.
There is an irrigation canal about 200' from the shop that is always full of cool water in the summer. We have a yard irrigation pump nearby. Do you think it would work to divert some of the yard irrigation water through the shop and run it through a heat exchanger like these to cool the shop? In addition to the exchanger it would take a few hundred feet of pipe, some T's and valves, a fan, and maybe a pressure switch. The pump runs daily, so if the pressure switch triggered the fan to run when the water was flowing, the only extra energy required to cool the shop would be for the fan itself.
Any chance this idea might work? Sure would be nice to have a comfortable shop year round.
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Would this work to cool a shop?
