Beyond water cooling. (Was Re: Peltier devices for cooling)

[DCMagnuson at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/11/00 6:07:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
martin.czech at intermetall.de writes:

> :::As I recall, she said she had found drywall with an aluminum foil
>  :::vapor barrier on one side. They simply ran ground straps to connect
>  :::all the drywall sheets together.
>  
>  Interesting!
>  
>  I asked because some friend is just building house and studio..
>  
>  Why is it called drywall? Some moisture protection stuff?
>  Is this the usual glass fibre isolation stuff which has a thick
>  alu layer on one side?
>  
>  US brand names are not known elsewhere.
>  

I've seen this in construction.  We do AC for cell phone tower sites, and 
they use this foil-backed drywall to keep the RF to a minimum inside the 
building.  The sheetrockers told me it costs about $25 a sheet.  They use it 
on metal studs, so only a few groundstraps were really needed

Dave Magnuson
Independent Music Site
http://www.indiemusicsite.com