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Water Cooled Methods for cooling in hot weather

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Posted 19 July 2006 - 07:24 PM

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Posted 19 July 2006 - 07:29 PM

Maybe. I was even called a sitting duck for liking water.

Could be: The Tricksy Dee Duck.

I remembered posting about a situation where someone was even cooled by toilet water in a water fight despite the warning.

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Posted 19 July 2006 - 07:42 PM

isn't there something about burying cans of beer, then putting tarp over it filling it with water then petrol then lighting the petrol or something///?
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Posted 19 July 2006 - 07:49 PM

I never heard about that as cooling before. I do know that throwing a can of baked beans in hot boiling water can explode making the place a bit beany.

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Posted 19 July 2006 - 09:14 PM

Well, my suggestions are more for desert living but they should still apply to your climate as well.

1) Pants, when no ones around just take them off. You could also substitute them for shorts, but I never saw the point. Always keep a pair handy incase the doorbell rings though.

2) Liquid, drink like a fish. I've found that Ice Tea works best for me if only because I'm a little foo foo girly man. It's just get something to cool you from the inside out.

3) Black curtains (like Jane suggested) or go all out and tape aluminum foil to them. Light heats things up, so dark is your friend.

4) Fans, not a complete substitute but it still helps out.

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Posted 19 July 2006 - 09:43 PM

5) live near water, and away from deserts.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 01:36 AM

Apparently, sticking a bottle of frozen water (ice, I suppose) behind your fan/air conditioning thingy helps make it actually blow cold, as opposed to just blowing. Haven't tried it myself yet, I'm just running with "get the moobs out and hope nobody dies as a result" for now...
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 03:40 AM

Leaving your freezer door open is a bad idea. The freezer works by sucking the heat out of itself, and emmitting it out the cables in the back. Due to loss in the electrical system being emitted as heat, the freezer always emitts more heat then it absorbs. Thus trying to cool your room down by leaving the freezer door open will ultimatly lead to it warming up.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 04:07 AM

I wish I had known that four months ago when they turned the air conditioning off in the dorms. pinch.gif
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 05:58 AM

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Well, my suggestions are more for desert living but they should still apply to your climate as well.

1) Pants, when no ones around just take them off. You could also substitute them for shorts, but I never saw the point. Always keep a pair handy incase the doorbell rings though.

Sounds a good idea but the mosquitoes liked me for that last time.

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2) Liquid, drink like a fish. I've found that Ice Tea works best for me if only because I'm a little foo foo girly man. It's just get something to cool you from the inside out.

I drink ginger cordials, sparkling water and I do eat mackeral fillets. I never tried Ice tea before, when the tea goes cold it seems to taste horrible to me. Maybe I could use some lemon to sweeten it up.

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3) Black curtains (like Jane suggested) or go all out and tape aluminum foil to them. Light heats things up, so dark is your friend.


I was advised to get white curtains as they said that white does not absorb the heat. I'll still try the with aluminum foil.

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QUOTE (Chyld @ Jul 20 2006, 01:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Apparently, sticking a bottle of frozen water (ice, I suppose) behind your fan/air conditioning thingy helps make it actually blow cold, as opposed to just blowing. Haven't tried it myself yet, I'm just running with "get the moobs out and hope nobody dies as a result" for now...


I tried that years ago and found that the bottle did not conduct the coldness very well. I am willing to try that again with more 2 litre bottles of water.


QUOTE (SimeSublime @ Jul 20 2006, 03:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Leaving your freezer door open is a bad idea. The freezer works by sucking the heat out of itself, and emmitting it out the cables in the back. Due to loss in the electrical system being emitted as heat, the freezer always emitts more heat then it absorbs. Thus trying to cool your room down by leaving the freezer door open will ultimatly lead to it warming up.


Someone told me about that and the reason it worked last time was because the fridge was in the kitchen near the door and the fan was blowing the cold air from the front of the fridge into the other room. It did got hotter from behind in the kitchen. So cold air was blowing into the lounge and hot air was heating up in the kitchen from behind.

Is it possible if everyone had air conditioning that it could contribute to a hotter climate?

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Posted 20 July 2006 - 07:29 AM

While it may not be a good idea to leave your refrigerator door open, I spent quite a satisfying 20 minutes with my head in the freezer yesterday.
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Posted 20 July 2006 - 09:58 AM

I always liked to do that when I had use to have a wide box freezer. I was paranoid that someone might lock me in there. That was something I could use for ice but space was limited.
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Posted 21 July 2006 - 02:29 AM

Trust me, if you want to block out light, white curtains don't do jack. My mother had them up in the living room, and the only use they ended up having was looking fancy. The light goes right through them.

I'd image sticking something like tin foil up would heat the place up like an oven.
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Posted 21 July 2006 - 05:01 AM

I know that you can cook a lot of things in a cardboard box covered in tinfoil. I'm not sure how much just covering your windows in tinfoil would do, but it seems like it wouldn't be good.
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Posted 21 July 2006 - 05:48 AM

QUOTE (Jane Sherwood @ Jul 21 2006, 02:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Trust me, if you want to block out light, white curtains don't do jack. My mother had them up in the living room, and the only use they ended up having was looking fancy. The light goes right through them.

I'd image sticking something like tin foil up would heat the place up like an oven.


How about a curtain with white material on the outside and black material in the inside?


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I know that you can cook a lot of things in a cardboard box covered in tinfoil. I'm not sure how much just covering your windows in tinfoil would do, but it seems like it wouldn't be good.


There was a time in another place when I tried to block a skylight window with paper.
The paper nearly caught light, towels wouldn't fit, and cardboard kept on falling down as for trying two types of tapes.


Well the ice cube is half frozen. I think I'll put it in the bath tomorrow for when I have real players joining and I will have to do something about that bathroom window or the ice won't last long.
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