On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, tom ring wrote: > Anyone know anything about this stuff? > > http://www.evanscooling.com/html/npgPls2.htm One issue may be heat transfer capability, which they don't really talk about except to say that NPG+ is 32% better than NPG. The main reason you use water/glycol mix in a cooling system is that water has a lot of heat carrying capability, much more than glycol alone would. Race cars run straight water, sometimes with a little bit of wetting agent added, for exactly this reason.
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