7/25 It's been pretty hot lately and I had this crazy idea to make a
living quarter cooler without using a lot of electricity. Some
properties have fountains or swimming pools. How about repiping them
with a pump so that they'd flow from the roof (like a building
that is always being rained on) to cool the entire building?
It'll use some water, but I'm sure it's a lot cheaper than AC.
\_ A good idea, and not a new one.
\_ URL please?
\_ Google for "swamp cooler"
\_ Google^H^H^H^H^H^HYahoo! for "swamp cooler"
\_ How the hell do you feel cool when you're swamped with
high humidity? It's just oxymoron.
\_ The best system is probably very good insulation, reflective/white
buildings with control of indoor sunshine, opening up to cool
at night, and possibly some floor-based cooling.
\_ Most ordinary houses have windows that can be opened to cool at
night before you go to sleep. I do that to keep my house not
as hot during daytime for my parent.
\_ I have another idea. Buy a lot of blue ice, or fill up a lot of
used bottles with water or whatever that has a high specific heat
capacity. Put them on a big cart. Push it out to the backyard in
the evening. Push it back indoor in the morning and blow on it with
a small fan. It won't work as well as AC, but it's more
enviromentally friendly and costs less. If using bottles, lots of
small bottles will work better than big 5-gallon ones. |