Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!
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BudmanTX
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i tend to, in my area.....my head don't pop out till dusk......
cannabineer
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I might divert some windfall money toward one.
Laughing Grass
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That sucks! It must be unbearable to try and sleep with the a/c off. I recall you saying that your pool is like a hot tub in the summer too. No escape.
Laughing Grass
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I'd hate to be a roofer or those guys who lay asphalt roads in the summer.
I actually run a swamp cooler. With our extraordinarily low humidity they work really well.
BudmanTX
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yep and down here don't be a landscaper either, been there done that....
Laughing Grass
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I've tried googling swamp cooler and never really understood how it works. It is putting cool moist air back into your house?
cannabineer
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Swamp coolers don’t really work east of the Rockies. I hadn’t heard of them til I visited Nevada in ‘86. Low-humidity air evaporates water, which has a very high heat of vaporization. You get cooler, humidified air.
Laughing Grass
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Are swamp coolers off the grid?
My dad got me a summer job holding signs on a road construction site in the blistering sun when I was in highschool. I left for my lunch break on the first day and never came back.
cannabineer
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The ones I’ve seen run on utility electricity. They draw a tenth of the watts of a comparable vapor-compression AC unit. In a wetter climate AC has the advantage of reducing indoor humidity, which adds considerably to the sensation of heat.
raratt
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Women have a pair of those to signify cold weather...You need to carry one of these around...it's a early warning system....
Laughing Grass
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What I don't understand is how you distribute it to the house. Is it pushed by forced air?
Laughing Grass
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men have the opposite version.
cannabineer
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Yes. Big-ass squirrel cage fan exchanges the whole house air in a few minutes. It’s a windier arrangement than classic AC. Air is forced through wet sponge, where it is cooled and humidified.
Actually air is pulled through wet excelsior and then the moistened air is pushed via blower into the house. It works via evaporative cooling.
raratt
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Yup, DO NOT go skinny dipping in a cold stream to impress a date.
cannabineer
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Did some googling, and aspen shavings are still king despite low lifetime.
BudmanTX
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now you tell me.....sheesh