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Keeping Your Apartment Cool in the Summer Time?
uvince asks: "Sure, the air is on all day at work, but when you are at home and it warms up (as the west coast is now) what do you do when a fan just won't cut it? Do you install a swamp cooler, set out a standing air conditioner, or install some air conditioner that fits in the window. How can I keep my apartment, or at least my bedroom cool? Anyone have any creative, green ideas?"
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Do you even lift?
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preferably with a hot chick who will invite you over to spend the night at her (air-conditioned) apartment!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I've seen ads on TV for breath mints that apparently turn everything in their vicinity to ice. I'm not sure I understand the science behind this phenomenon, but maybe with a little experimentation you might be able to harness this strange power for your own needs.
Good luck!
- Keep your windows open at night, close them first thing in the morning.
- Don't cook with your oven range (Probably not a problem for most slashdot readers)
- Keep doors shut to isolate heat transition from room to room
- Turn off all PDP-11's in the house.
If you need an air conditioner and can afford to keep it on all the time, ignore previously mentioned solutions and just keep it cranked.However, angels will cry, baby jesus will be vexed, and your PG&E bill will be orbital.
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or get an apartment with AC.
Naw, AC is too much of a troll. Can you imagine living with him? Of course the frost piss will cool things down somewhat.
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The "green" solution is clearly to suffer in the heat and die of heat stroke or heat exhaustion, thereby lowering the world's population and increasing "sustainability".
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...that way, when you go in and out of the kitchen, you'll notice just how cool the rest of your house is compared.
Move to a place with central air. My place is no more expensive than any other.
Either that, or move to Alaska.
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The cheapest solution (green too) that I can think of is to move underground. Have you ever been in a cave? Once you get about six feet underground the temperature never changes. It's always nicely cool. Some caves even come with filtered running mineral water. Bonus!
Once underground, your only real environmental problem is lighting, for which you should use fibre optics and solar collectors during the day and use LED lighting powered by batteries when the sun is not out. Oh, and charge the batteries using solar too.
If there are no caves on the market in your area, just bury your house. Remember, the dirt needs to be at least three feet thick, but you will reach a point of diminishing returns at around five or six feet so there's no need to waste your money and labor on extra dirt. Where you get the dirt is up to you, but please ask your neighbor before digging in their yard!
Note: author not responsible for damage to buried houses
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Athlons are perfect in the winter time as the keep you warm all day/night long. Your prolly thinking this will save you alot of money on the heater bill, which it does (CPU is a multi-purpose device now acting for both PC and climate comfort). But.....durring the summer time. Muahahhahah, payback's a bitch. Enjoy ;)
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Actually I spent some time thinking about this long ago (what kind of person overclocks his house?) I often thought that the evaporative cooling might work wonders on a brick house, set up a sprayer outside to spray enough water to saturate the bricks, let it trickle down and entirely wet the whole wall.
My thinking was that when we as people get out of the pool / ocean / whatever and are still wet, even a moderate breeze cools us off very quickly, to the point of chills. Soak down the outside walls of your house to do the same thing.
Didn't work, the red bricks were retaining ungodly amounts of heat from baking in the sun all day, the first splashes of water evaporated almost instantly. I guess the solid mass, a few tons of bricks, can retain way more heat than can be quickly drawn off by applying water to the surface.
At least I tried. At first I thought it had worked, but while I was outside goofing off with water cooling my house, my girlfriend was inside turning on the central AC and cranking it down to 72, which she generally does when I am not looking. Pretty effective way to cool a house, in her mind, and I have to say she is right.
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And on top of that: if you eat lots of garlic, the people around will give you more breathing room.
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Humid heat is unbearable - and that is the kind of condition when evaporator fails.
Evaporate pure grain alcohol! At $35 a galon, it is not too expensive. (Albertson's vodka is even cheaper than Everclear). Alcohol will prevent growth of mold, give out a nice refreshing smell and make your hot appartment very enjoyable. Biodegradable - and will not hurt ozonosphere.
If you are willing to invest, buy a big dewar. Liquid nitrogen in bulk volumes is cheaper than milk. Wach out for a frozen mailman on doorsteps.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
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