• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    If I’m reading Wikipedia correctly, it takes 348 Joules of heat to boil a gram of CO2.

    Water is 2257 Joules per gram. As long as you don’t need anything cooled under 100C, water is the way to go for cooling. It’s also a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to deal with than liquid CO2.