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Originally posted by bigben2k
Unfortunately, that would be abysmal. (political statements aside...)
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I don't think so.
It's a slightly different approach.
If thin walled tubing were used, I could see it performing quite well.
With regular radiators, The whole tubing has been covered in fins, often with a little flare at contact. I often wonder about the quality of contact at this crucial point, and its associated thermal resistance. It will have one, and the tubing of the rad will have to rise in temp to provide sufficient thermal gradient to dissipate the heat in to the fins.
However, in this casem there will be a reduced convective heat transfer coefficient for the whole rad, but I think the thermal resistance getting the heat to the convection surface will be lower, so it is a blance between these two factors.
I hope this makes sense.
8-ball