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Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award
juju2112 writes "Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria won a Rolex award for his pot-in-pot invention. Here's how it works. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. When the water evaporates, it pulls the heat out with it, making the inside cold. It's a natural, cheap, easy-to-make refrigerator."
...You're a jerk!
I just invented a stick filled with ink to make signs on paper with! Now, where is my prize? I also invented how to make heat out of wood, I call it "burnination". I think I'll patent that.
What do you know? He won yet another award!
Nigeria has been a terrible place to cook meat because of their people's natural inability to make fire. However, Mohammed made an ingenious invention! You sharpen a stick, stab that stick through a piece of meat, poultry, or fish, and place that stick upon two sticks driven into the ground. When you rotate that stick under the hot Nigerian sun, your food cooks!
Mohammed, you're a genious. May Nigeria remember you in the highest regard.
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Why the frig is this post even there. There is also this invention known as Clay. Used by people in India and Africa to make pots, which hold water. This thing called Clay is POROUS. So what happens is that when you put water in the pot, the hot, less dense water evaporates, leaving COOL water in the pot. This has been done for the past 5000 years. I can't fucking believe this actually gets a mention on Slashdot. So since I'm now officially a troll with awful Karma simply because the Mods are biased, I guess this'll be my last post on SlashShit. So goodbye, and STFU
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Where's the 1394b port??
Everyone is missing the most important part of this development. What will this do to the economy of nigeria? What about the farmers who will be able to sell less food because food will last longer? This evil technology should be banned by the nigerian government. Let the proles rise!