The
United States Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado purchased a Coolerado C600 to help
cool their Thermal Testing Laboratory.
Before
permanently installing the cooler in the building, it is being
extensively tested using NREL's world class test equipment.
Pictured at right standing in front of the Coolerado Cooler
(from left to right) are Rick
Gillan and Dr.
Valeriy
Maisotsenko of Coolerado, Joe Ryan, Research Engineer, and Steve Slayzak,
Senior Engineer with NREL.
Eventually
the cooler will be mounted from the ceiling and used to cool the
conference room and as much of the rest of the building as it can.
In addition, NREL will be able to perform long term testing.
Ultracool
We receive
many questions from people that have attended DOE and NREL
presentations and demonstrations of the Coolerado Cooler wondering why
they have labeled it as Ultra cool, Ultracool, Ultra-cool, Ultra-cooler
or Ultracooler. NREL explains that they created the Ultracool
label to categorize all indirect evaporative coolers that can cool below
the wet bulb - a category of 1.