ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Deep Lake Water Cooling System

A deep lake water cooling system is like a big air conditioning unit but instead of using electricity to cool your house, it uses cold water from a deep lake to cool buildings.

Think of a lake like a big swimming pool. The water at the top is warm because it gets sunlight during the day. But the water at the bottom of the lake is very cold because it never sees the sun.

The deep lake water cooling system uses a pipe to suck up the cold water from the bottom of the lake and pumps it through a network of pipes to buildings in the nearby area that need to be cooled down.

The water from the lake then cools down the buildings and it warms up a little bit in the process. The warmer water is then pumped back into the shallow part of the lake, where it can warm up again in the sun.

This is a very sustainable way of cooling buildings because it uses a renewable resource (water from the lake) instead of using electricity to power air conditioning units. It is also a very affordable way to cool buildings because the cold water from the lake is naturally there, no extra energy is needed to make it cold.