ISH science challenge: Cheap, homemade air-conditioner for the hot Summer ahead?

[gigantes]

1) i've already built one based on an internet movement: combine a watercooler full of ice and ice water, copper tubing wrapped around the face of a box fan, and a water pump to move the ice water across the face of the fan. meh. grade: C-

2) in southern USA, lots of ppl apparently like to just put a block of dry ice in front of a fan. okay... works nice, but... CO poisoning-alert indoors? grade: C-huh? :confusedshrug:

3) a friend who goes to berkeley suggested a variation on #1, but run through an old car radiator-- all the little heat sink lattices supposedly radiate cool air like a mofo. tentative grade: B

4) and then there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSLbpAwibg
grade: NO F-ING IDEA

5) other? D for now because.


which sounds best?

[iamgine]

#1 doesn't work?

[DeuceWallaces]

Aren't window units like 100 bucks?

I don't think the others will satisfy.

[gts]

#4 looks promising... Sadly I think he spent more on AC than his couch

[robert de niro]

another heat hater thread? :no:
jk

[gigantes]

another heat hater thread? :no:
hating lebron is a complicated process, bro!



Aren't window units like 100 bucks?

I don't think the others will satisfy.
i do have a portable air conditioner (works nice), but i can't stand recycled air for some reason. i like my windows free for my plants and stuff.

how much sense do you think #4 makes if you don't mind my asking?

[Crystallas]

ice+salt+Styrofoam cooler+boxfan. Simple, works in a pinch.

Relying on making ice to cool an area = more expensive and less efficient than using an electric air conditioning unit.

[DeuceWallaces]

hating lebron is a complicated process, bro!



i do have a portable air conditioner (works nice), but i can't stand recycled air for some reason. i like my windows free for my plants and stuff.

how much sense do you think #4 makes if you don't mind my asking?

It seems promising, but you would have to paint it or something. I guess I just have an "adult" house and I wouldn't want to look at that thing.

[gigantes]

It seems promising, but you would have to paint it or something. I guess I just have an "adult" house and I wouldn't want to look at that thing.
ahhhhhhh just science, no fashion-sense required, dammit! :P

[gigantes]

side-note just occurred sorry: what are those draught states going to do?

TX, OH and CA i think

[Bosnian Sajo]

You don't have ac at your house? And you live in the south? Damn bruh, I'd die. I remember earlier this year our ac broke and we had to live 2 weeks in florida without ac...brotha believe me when I say I could not be inside the house at all, it was hell. And when I remember trying to go to sleep those days...hor ri ble.

[PHX_Phan]

hating lebron is a complicated process, bro!



i do have a portable air conditioner (works nice), but i can't stand recycled air for some reason. i like my windows free for my plants and stuff.

how much sense do you think #4 makes if you don't mind my asking?

#4 is pretty effective. My bro made one and got the temp coming out down to around 50 degrees. I'm sure if you put a little more thought into it you could get it to blow even cooler.

I wanted to try it out myself this summer.

[gigantes]

#4 is pretty effective. My bro made one and got the temp coming out down to around 50 degrees. I'm sure if you put a little more thought into it you could get it to blow even cooler.

I wanted to try it out myself this summer.
right, we just need a couple of those big drill attachments. still very low cost.


who says HAHA, mofos...?

[PHX_Phan]

right, we just need a couple of those big drill attachments. still very low cost.


who says HAHA, mofos...?

My bro just used one of those all foam ice coolers and cut the vents holes by hand. Including a $14 fan I think he spent a total of $18 making it.

The hole saw and arbor dude used in the video alone were more expensive than all the materials used for the project

[Myth]

I actually made 1 out of one of those $3 foam coolers. Just holes in the cooler, $8 fan, and ice. It works in my bedroom, but can't notice much difference in my living room because of the size of the room.

[MadeFromDust]

1) i've already built one based on an internet movement: combine a watercooler full of ice and ice water, copper tubing wrapped around the face of a box fan, and a water pump to move the ice water across the face of the fan. meh. grade: C-?
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/45871044.jpg

[gigantes]

lol... they discovered i'm an idiot, now what eh?

i can post it later if you jackasses really insist. it didn't really work

[russwest0]

get a usb powered fan you ****ing dipshit

[gigantes]

get a usb powered fan you ****ing dipshit
yea right that'll help, genius