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These People Are Using Plastic Water Bottles to Cool Their Homes, and the Method Is Brilliant! (Video)
by Amanda Froelich, True Activist
The simple invention is the world’s first-ever ‘zero electricity’ air conditioner.
Chances are that if you’re reading this, you’re one of the lucky individuals on this planet who has access to electricity and can harness tools, such as Air Conditioning (AC), to stay cool during hot, summer months.
Not everyone is so fortunate, however, which is why an inventor named Ashis Paul developed an ingenious solution to help those in rural, poverty-stricken locations – specifically residents in Bangladesh – cool off.
In three months, Paul’s company developed Eco Coolers, smart powerless air conditioners which don’t require any electricity. Already, 25,000 households around the world are outfitted with an Eco Cooler system, and that number is expected to grow. Many of the systems are being utilized by Bangladeshi people.
The simple invention is reportedly the world’s first-ever ‘zero electricity’ air conditioner.
Credit: Eco Cooler
How does it work? It’s actually fairly simple. First, a board is cut to fit the desired window. Then, bottleneck-sized holes are cut out in a grid pattern. Next, the bottoms of empty plastic bottles are cut off and discarded, leaving funnel-snapped bottlenecks that are placed on the grid. All one needs to do then is install it in place of the regular window, reports Inhabitat.
Credit: Eco Cooler
The Eco Cooler works because the wide parts of the bottles, which face outward, catch the passing wind and literally funnel cool air into the building’s interior.
Credit: Eco Cooler
Paul didn’t develop the Eco Cooler to make a profit. In fact, his top priority was to get the concept out there to as many people as possible. Thanks to the Grey Group, which used its position as a multinational advertising firm to put the plans online – free of charge, exactly that happened.
Credit: Eco Cooler
Anyone can build their own Eco Cooler system, and volunteers from Grameen Intel Social Business are even helping to build and install the units. They’re also educating locals on how to construct the electricity-free coolers, so they might help their neighbors.
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Genius!
This is pretty simple and durable if you have the materials….
This makes ice
http://www.free-energy-info.com/P13.pdf
Use a small solar panel to power the fan for this device…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITtlxjvLQis
And you have free 100% solar refrigeration and A/C
Good Journeys
Very nice but it’s no heat pump and it does not part warm air from cold air so i am not sure it will do much at all apart from reflecting sunlight away from the windows which will help to keep the room cooler.
it is possile to get free heating from the sun but not free cooling as i understand it without evaporating water that will work to some degree
Cool, but not way cool. I will go out on a limb and guess the Venturi effect speeds up the airflow? Slightly compresses the air going in the “funnel, and the expansion slightly cools it? Every little bit helps. This would have been a lot more interesting if the scientific principles were explained, and quantified.
Woah, woah, woah!
Explain scientific principles?!?!?!
You’re on BIN.
You’re lucky they linked to the real article they stole this from.
I can only blame my lack of judgment on CERN, and the Archangel Mickey.
I did not think about that one but the energy would be small and maybe just 3 watts or something and thats if the wind is blowing.
Sunlight can produce 3kw per squair meter so it’s the white reflector thats doing the job me thinks
Some bottles filtering air into the house. No wind = no “cooling”
Hardly an air conditioner.
NICE! I can see this being used in a post-apocalyptic, one-with-nature type of home worldwide. Still lots of research needs to be done on optimizing the shape, size, spacing, materials, etc. This could be done on the entire surface of the house, with screens to prevent insects. The bottles should probably be longer and/or pointed slightly downward to prevent rain from blowing in, and any on the roof would have to be pointed downward as well, of course, because of the rain.
I wonder how much a house with these on all surfaces could be cooled? They could also be capped during cold temperatures
Clever idea using pop bottles like that. I guess any improvement is good but 5 degrees is a pretty modest improvement.
What I’d do is call a community meeting and try to get everyone living in that village on board with a plan to plant and care for fast growing shade trees in every available space. The goal being to create a tree canopy to shade the village. That would reduce the temperature at ground level dramatically for almost no cost.
It worked for Regina Saskatchewan. Prairie heat can be intense, so the local government developed a program to plant shade threes throughout the city. In many areas, it’s like you’re in a forest as you drive down the street. In fact, when you see pictures of the city, it looks like a forest. The effect is profound, there is shade everywhere and it makes the city much more comfortable than it would otherwise be.
Here’s an image of a street in Regina: https://canadaalive.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/regina-avenue-autumn-canopy.jpg?w=788
How is the outside air cooled as suggested ? somwehting does not add up in ohysics gere ?
Great idea.
We’ve decided to insulate our party caravan, but we are doink it wish bourbon bottlsh inshtet. *yic
I dont think this would work, aside from imaginary effects. No one here has explained the physics principals. Maybe I am just too intellegent to understand with a lifetime in refridgeration and cooling devices to limit my understanding?
Maybe people are only too willing to believe since it involves two politically correct ideas. 1)a 3rd world country location and reinforcing the presumption that non americans are less comfortable than americans, 2) the reuse of american type trash. This would conform to “truth” according to the new american education standards.