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Originally posted by airspirit
You still have air leaving, eliminating your idea of prolonged condensation times. If anything, a pingpong ball filled hot tower would nearly eliminate particulate exhaust, leaving just the evaporate from tower 1 to leave, even without any extra cooling to the water, such as the radiator array that you guys have proved unnecessary.
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The hot tower would remove liquid water entrained in the cold tower, but unless you have a seriously farked up bong you shouldn't have any. If you can place your hand over the bong exhaust and not get any water to condense on your hand, you don't have any "particulate exhaust" to recover.
Keep in mind that "particulate exhaust," by which I think you mean "entrained water," is water blown up and out the bong without evaporating. This water is still liquid, and since it has not vaporized it has not contributed to cooling anything.
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In a strict particulate based setup like that with a long up-spout for the exhaust fan, you'd conserve a ton of water over a standard bong for that reason alone. You would eliminate a dehumidifier, probably cut water loss in half (at least), and with a simple overflow valve between the chambers and a supply tank on a float valve, it would be days or weeks between fill-ups (think of a third tower dedicated to water storage, gravity fed through the valve).
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If you have liquid water spraying out the top of your bong, then you'd probably do well to reduce air or water flow until that stopped rather than devise a means to capture the water. Again, water leaving the bong without evaporating does not aid cooling.
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