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Post by wvdexters on Apr 9, 2015 12:54:51 GMT
Did you all see this??
Pretty neat! Something like this could really be handy later this summer.
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Post by jamshundred on Apr 10, 2015 2:43:31 GMT
I never had air conditioning when I was growing up. I think there may have been fans? But I never remember complaining about heat. I discovered on the farm that when I had central air running indoors, the heat outside was too uncomfortable after a short period of time. I stopped using air conditioning and only use ceiling fans for cooling indoors. My body handles heat far easier when I am not accustomed to the artificial cooling
judu
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Post by genebo on Apr 10, 2015 14:35:55 GMT
I wanted to do the same thing, but my city girl bride was against it. We manage to keep the thermostat set high enough so it doesn't bother me to go out in the summertime.
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Post by wvdexters on Apr 10, 2015 23:50:50 GMT
I was thinking something like this might be of use down at the barn if we ever run into trouble. Those 100+ days are coming. Might be a way to cool a small area a bit, bring a little relief.
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Post by genebo on Apr 11, 2015 2:03:03 GMT
One of my neighbors has a solar powered freezer. He bought it to keep his frozen food frozen during power outages. I think it would be a good way to make ice for this air conditioner.
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Post by lakeportfarms on Apr 11, 2015 2:43:47 GMT
Our building at the farm (where I also have my business) was built specifically for storing apples. It is super well insulated, thick concrete floors, walls, and ceiling/roof. The walls are very well insulated, and even the floor has insulation underneath the concrete, and between the walls and the concrete floor. It therefore retains the heat (and cold) extremely well. Few buildings would be constructed like this anymore, the cost would be prohibitive. It is essentially a giant (17,000 sq. ft.) refrigerator/freezer building designed to keep apples cool even on the warmest days. There were once even rooms set up where pure nitrogen was pumped in to preserve the apple freshness for extended periods of time.
Even though I have nice tube radiant heaters in it, for the past two years I have NEVER turned on the heat and the building has not only stayed above freezing, but has never dropped below 41 degrees even during the extremely bitter cold periods. We do have a nice little office/apartment area that is heated with the Hearthstone wood stove, but that is all we've used. On the list of my "to do" projects is to finish some solar air heaters on the South side of the building that I think would provide significant heat during the fall and winter months when the sun is shining (not too often in Michigan I'm afraid) Spring the sun doesn't shine a lot because of the cold lake. We've had a lot more sunny days when it's been really cold during the winter because they lakes have frozen up so much, which has been nice.
Anyway, in the summer during the hottest weather, the building also never really gets above 70 or so degrees inside if it's kept closed up. That is due to all the insulation and thermal mass of the concrete. Later in the summer I keep it open as much as possible to warm it up a bit more and try to "store" some heat for the winter.
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