refrigeration without power - the cool box

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Marina and Robert of Dell Artimus Farm take a general electric 1930's refrigerator, strip out the motor and add in .... spring water. Refrigeration without any electricity. Easy peazy.

They call it the cool box.

Also used as a cheese cave.

Music by Jimmy Pardo

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Science & Technology

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• cool
• box

[BillGoose1313]

To the naysayers: I think the video makes a very important point - think outside the box (no pun intended). How much money (i.e. electricity) could this country save if when the outside temperature dropped low enough your refrigerator shut off and a little fan, connected to an outside vent, kicked on and pumped cold air into your refrigerator (or freezer when the temp is low enough)? We waste so much energy putting a box designed to keep things cold inside a box designed to stay warm.

[paulwheaton12]

@BillGoose1313 i gave an upvote. well put.

[MrFWard86]

Great! Now everyone on earth can move to a plot of land with a natural spring and we can all have free natural refrigeration! Thank the hippies for another world saving idea.

[paulwheaton12]

@MrFWard86 Some people are able to learn new things. Some people have mystical powers that prevent it.

A lot of homesteaders have a spring. And this is something that is a solution for those people. And, it gives information that makes me think of several other things that would work almost as well in places where there are not springs.

[MysticKnight38]

ummmmm what are you using to pump the water????? An "ELECTRIC" water pump maybe?????

[paulwheaton12]

@MysticKnight38 gravity. they have a spring uphill of the fridge.

[paulwheaton12]

@kitsurubami gravity

[Impaler1984]

it should be About 40 degrees

[chrisdsanders]

60 degrees is NOT sufficient for ALL foods. Correctly prepared cheese and butter is fine, but not ALL foods. Your "danger zone" for food born illness is 40-140 degrees.

[overclockedamd123]

I want this for my computer....yes Im a nerd.

[guitarplayer123]

mmmmm cheese



[HeyLookWhatICanDo]

@paulwheaton12 Hahahaha, great idea. Way to look at what you've got and putting it to use for yourself. There isn't one solution that is going to work for everyone and this shows the ingenuity needed to live off from your own land.

[Sheikyerbouti8]

What a great idea. It could be greatly improved upon with some simple tweaks. Use a box with the opening on the top instead of on the side, and use better insulation than what they had in the thirties such as styrofoam, and a counter-current exchange for optimal heat removal (i.e. coil the pipe arround the sides starting from the bottom and spiraling upward toward the top). These things will make a BIG difference. I love this idea! Very inovative.

[tomperanteau]

@zaldumbide13 Actually... They don't need to research anything. They seem to be content with their findings. Perhaps you need to do research on whatever it is that you see fit.

[tomperanteau]

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