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Keeping Your Keg Cool Sans Ice
DrLudicrous writes "Case Western Reserve University is reporting that first year physics graduate student Adam Hunnell has come up with the idea for a Keg Wrap, a thermoelectric sheet that will be able to maintain a full keg at 32-35F by running off of wall current or even a car's cigarette lighter. The funding for this project is coming from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, which has provided Mr. Hunnell with a $20,000 grant. Serious stuff - I'd rather see this than another few million dumped into quantum computing."
i wonder how many kegs he bought for that 20g... for testing purposes of course
This sounds like part of the plot for "Revenge of the Nerds 6"; something about the jocks having a party that blows because the beer is warm, but the nerds invent amazing keg-cooling gadgets and get the cheerleeders to go to the Lambda-Lambda-Lambda nerd frat party.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I think it a fine invention. Beer has a greater impact on the world thus far than quantum computing.
If there are 2,500 wholesalers are in the US how are 3,200 for them in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania?
Give THIS guy the Nobel Price in Physics. Or Medicine. Or Peace - I don't care.
*cheers*
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It drinks like a meal
Pour slowly, or you will break your beer glass.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Wake me up when it can be attached to a molex connector...
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> I'd rather see this than another few million dumped into quantum computing.
The cooler reduces the entropy of the beer, and then you drink it, causing your brain state to collapse on a solution that's guaranteed to seem like a good idea at the time.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Hmmmm, a keg wrap that runs off of 100-120VAC power == keg parties.
Can also run off of a car cigarette lighter == tailgaiting extraordinaire.
This kid is going to the wrong school. He'd be a god down at Ohio State....
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
Hi' I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such beer-cooling movies as "Strange Brew II: Electric Icebox Boogaloo" and "Cool Keggings".
First, Koolio - the beer delivering robot, and now this!?
Actually, I would like to pledge $20 dollars to the existing grant to make sure this gets the proper funding! Nothing like a project like this to spur the great minds of our generation to take action.
I have to think that the $20k will pale in comparison to the Home Shopping Network profits next year.
I dont remember my kegs sitting around long enough to see room temprature, of course, I dont remember.
"If you have done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways" -- hhgg
Yeah, you could get a big, unglazed terra cotta pot, put the keg in, fill it with wet sand, let the sun's heat evaporate the water, and - nah, it'd never work... :P
Without the free flow of beer there would be no new inventions.
When this vaporware becomes reality, it will mark the dawn of a new Rennaisance - a bold new world where intergalactic keggers are the rule, rather than the exception...
Long live the electric keg cooling blanket!
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
or even a car's cigarette lighter.
Thank God. Frankly, I think its pretty dangerous to have to lean over and pull beer out of the back seat ice cooler while driving. Now, we can just plug a cooler into the cigarette lighter and keep our eyes on the road.
Thank you, technology!
actually it also serves a public good...
You run it off your car battery to keep the beer cold and when you're finished with the beer, your car battery is dead so you can't drink and drive!
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Can they make clothing out of this?
Yes, but you need a long extension cord.
= waking up with your car parked in a fountain
Nerd? Oh yes because his party will be so lame that no one will show up so he will have a lot of beer left over.
For the folks who have a British car - the suggestion is that it's due to our fridges being made by Lucas Electrics.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
I'll do it for $2,000, and get to pocket more than half of that!
"Thermoelectrics". You know, peltiers. I just picked up a couple of high-quality, surplus 45-watt Peltiers for $4 each. Each being able to pump up to 30 watts of heat, it certainly wouldn't take many of them to keep that beer keg nice and chilly.
So, just for grins, let's say that I buy 20 of those, and run them at much less than full power. That keeps each spot from getting so hot that it needs a heat sink. That's what, $80 so far? Then, it's a matter of building the power supply/temp controller and sewing up a wrap.
Out of this guy's $20,000 grant, he'll probably be able to spend about $19,500 on "restocking vital supplies" (refilling all of the kegs he's drunk).
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
I never trusted that Dr. Stupid...
Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.
Is this a perpissual motion machine?
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves