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.

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[robzrob]

You could take your ordinary mains cold water supply and run it around the inside of the fridge so that every time you turned on a tap, ran the shower, etc, the water you're using would flow through the fridge first.

[paulwheaton12]

i gave an upvote. well put.

[l ortiz]

Has to be closer to 40 to be safe..good luck..

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[BIGMUDDYDOG]

At 60 degrees all you have is a big white petri dish.

[Selina Grissom]

60 degrees?...people can get really sick that way: Leaving food out too long at room temperature can cause bacteria (such as Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella Enteritidis, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Campylobacter) to grow to dangerous levels that can cause illness. Bacteria grow most rapidly in the range of temperatures between 40 °F and 140 °F, doubling in number in as little as 20 minutes. This range of temperatures is often called the "Danger Zone."

[BRUCE LEE]

You can take an old freezer and add a 20 dollar controller.The small freezer becomes a fridge that uses 100 watts of solar power a day.A regular fridge runs 2000 watts a day.

Look for you tube videos.Maybe make a good video of how to hook up the controller.

ADD R10 Styraofoam and thick plywood in a country satin design and you run on less than 100 watts daily and the old freezwer looks cottage like or makes a nice cutting board dual purpose.

[Fran Cisco]

It's perfect for it's intended purpose. These sorts of things kept people from getting sick back in the day. Even simpler examples where there is little or no electricity are two clay pots with wet sand between and a wet cloth over top. Evaporation keeps food from spoiling. I toured a plantation on the hot/humid Mississippi and saw where they dug big pits to drop winter ice from the river into and cover it. It kept them in ice for their ice boxes all summer. Simple ideas work.

[TheDynamicsolo]

Yeah, 7 days to create the earth, it probably took more like 100 Trillion years.

[bashpr0mpt]

It gets 110? Wouldn't all water evaporate considering it boils at 100? D:< And 38 isn't cold, that's hot! These guys are fucking idiots! D:<

(I'm kidding, but anything engineering or scientific should always use the metric system, that said, only ONE nation doesn't use metric now, Angola (yes, the US and Angola, great company there!) saw the light and adopted the metric system finally. Embrace science guys, I know you can do it! Then again 50%+ of you believe in 7 day supernatural creation. :/)

[FordRVRefrigeration]

Refrigeration is great