Ever had to deal with a power blackout during the hot summer months? Then you know just how important keeping cool can be.
Over on The Good Survivalist we found a great tip to save you money and keep you cool:
Seems every year people die due to heat. Keeping your home cool in the summer can be very expensive if you use your air conditioner. This air conditioner is very simple to make, and can be made in a few minutes if you are handy.Even if you are not handy you’ll be able to make one of these DIY air conditioners. One of the nice things about this air conditioner is that it will give you up to 6 hours of coolness. This thing works so well you may need to put on a sweatshirt! To make one of these babies you need a few simple tools, a couple of 5 gallon buckets, along with a few other items. Everything is shown in the video.
12 volt battery, good concept,
Really
Still a waste of time and money…
I’m already down for this,needed it last night when storm knocked power out over 15 hours
A lady I work with actually made one. She said it works really well.
If the power is out….how do you run this?
..solar power panel provides the fan pwr.
This doesn’t work! Air conditioning is a process that removes the humidity from the room! This would only add humidity! Complete waste of time!
Fredz says:
“Truth is this is a swamp cooler,not a a/c ,as mentioned before is can actually increase humidity of the room so when the ice fades which it will do quickly the heat will be worse than if you had not run it in the first place. I guess this would help in the event of a power failure that might last for a while, but if the power is out for a week across a whole city or state where would you get the ice from in the first place?? Even though he shows a good temp right out the bucket a foot past that will still only be a few degrees cooler than the surrounding room. The very reason it’s called a swamp cooler is cause it only “cools” the air a little bit and adds massive amounts of humidity, hence the name “swamp cooler”…”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/super-easy-diy-make-454-air-conditioner-15/comment-page-39/#comment-425448
This is stupid and a waste of time and energy to make
What good is a fan if theres no power. lemme guess a solar powered fan would work.Wait… then you would be heating up the room with the needed sun rays through the windows to keep the fan running. kinda defeats the purpose