It’s getting fuckin hot out there. My tiny little window AC cannot keep up so I’ll be making one of these bad boys soon. I’ll let y’all know how it goes, but for now, here’s the instructions for anyone who needs it c:
mmm mould spores. I live in the UK where its way too humid to consider trying this inside. Pumping water through silicone pipes around my legs and a reservoir with an ice bottle in it did an alright job to help cool off after exercise though. Not sure how sustainable it would be to run long term, think I need another source of cool.
I have wondered how cool the ground is if you dug down 50cm or so and put the pipes there to cool down. But at that point I would be using a huge amount of pipes to get it anywhere with no idea if it would even work very well.
They work great if it’s not humid out. Like in AZ right up until the monsoon hits, you can keep a house in the low 70s with swamp cooling* even when it’s 100 outside, but once humidity jumps up to 30-40%, suddenly it’s 80+ inside…
* Mind you, that is a full sized roof unit.
Humidity is 60-80% here today. At least there is a little bit of wind right now.
That’s the problem with NY… It may not get to 100° all the time, but it regularly stays 90°+ and it is ALWAYS 45%rh or more…
Working in an open air factory in NY summers is brutally suffocating…
