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Too cheap to get any kind of AC for your house? Trying to get extra bang for your buck out of a whole house fan? Dying in this sweltering heat?
Then the swamp screen is for you. These stylish swamp screens are fashioned after famous storm shutters from around the world, featuring double panneled
louvres, with a fine mesh of micro fibers with enormous capillary action potential. The bottoms of the pannels contain a reservoir of water, which can be replenished by hand through the top, or via a pipeline extention, which Our capable installers can set up for a nominal fee.
When it gets too hot, simply wet the swamp shutters, and close put them in place to cover an open window. any breeze that enters through that window is now evaporatively cooled! Homes with whole-house fans can suck air through them for maximum cooling potential, but passive cooling through regular ventilation will also work.
Coolgardie Safe
http://projects.pow...om/rat/cool_fct.htm
[normzone, Aug 09 2006]
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This reminds me of a Coolgardie Safe (primitive Australian fridge), except that, in the Coolgardie Safe, I think the reservoir is at the top, and fabric strips dangle from it down the sides of the refrigerated box. |
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Is the mesh you describe doing the same job as those fabric strips (i.e., drawing water from the reservoir so that the passing breeze will evaporate more of it)? |
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and if there is no breeze? ...put the fan outside of the window and blow it into the house. |
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Old, perhaps, but never packaged like this... |
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I always used to see this as a big ice cube in front of a fan. |
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Yeah, it's ancient, just packaged a little more conveniently. The mesh would indeed draw water from the reservoir, through capillary action. Downward might work better, but then again, reserviors on both top, bottom, and sides might be best. |
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If there's no breeze, a whole house fan can suck the air into the house, making them work quite well, I'd imagine. A fan outside the window would make this into... umm... a swamp cooler? |
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Mightn't this get rather moldy? |
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A reservoir on the top would work best. One could add one of those solid bleach-eluting chunks (think swimming pool or toilet bowl) to prevent mold. The reservoir could be automatically filled using a float, again analogous to a toilet. In fact, this entire device could be made out of a toilet, but substituting the mesh window for the bowl. |
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I envision the window frame as being white porcelain. One would not want this system on the ground floor near a rowdy bar, or there might be understandable accidents after closing time. |
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All good ideas Bungs... except for the porcelain screen part. I suppose the porcelain is not much more fragile than the glass of the window, but holes in porclain are notoriously hard to keep clean... and that's coming from a guy who's cleaned urinals on a daily basis. |
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//reserviors on both top, bottom, AND sides might be best.// Hehehe... sounds funny. |
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Wait a minute! [Bungs] are you suggesting I should just flush the idea? Ahh, probably not. I had thought of making some toilet analogies myself for replenishing the reservoir, but I didn't think that describing anything that works through transmitting particles of fluid into the air by making analogies to human waste disposal systems would help to earn buns. |
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