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Not only ids the condensation an annoyance problem, but an efficiency one as well. If you interested in the simple science lesson for why, keep reading.
When water is a liquid it has covalent bonds (a type of microscopic bond) with other water molecules. Evaporation is caused by the breaking of these bonds between water molecules, and this requires energy, which comes in the form of heat from whatever the water is touching. This is why when you exit a pool, it feels colder (the water is evaporating off of you, taking energy (heat) from you to break the covalent bonds). The opposite happens when water condenses, the covalent bonds reform. When the bonds form, it recreates the energy "lost" when breaking them, and therefore increases the temperature of whatever it condenses on. Since the water molecules evaporated from somewhere else (probably from a lake / ocean), then there is a (very small) net decrease in temperature in those lakes, and an increase in temperature in the cold pipes (which is larger in size, because these pipes are significantly smaller than a lake / ocean).
This would cause the pipes to warm up faster, requiring more ice in the cooling box to keep it that cool. It isn't a very large effect, but if you could think of something to decrease the humidity easily (like keeping windows closed to prevent more humidity from entering after you condense it all out of the air), it would help.
That is actually how dehumidifiers work. They cool the air, get the water to condense out of it and into some container, and then re-heat it before emitting it out so it is the same temperature after leaving the unit as it was going in.
Science class sure helps explain a lot.
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Had a spammer. He posted the same site on some forums. Now he's just dust in the wind.
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You sent him to Kansas? Wow - I guess that added Admin stuff really works. Cool.
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