Okay, Now It's Officially Summer
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Its so hot, I saw Optimus Prime transform into an air conditioner.
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors. :)
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Its so hot, I saw Optimus Prime transform into an air conditioner.
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors. :)
I wish I had more skill using Photoshop; our entire office is solar powered, and a picture of the solar panels melting would look so right....
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
I have an idea for a solar powered air conditioner that's entirely feasible. The problem is as always the initial cost. Where is the pain threshold for how much people would pay for one?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
it's 50°C
My, oh, my; that must be intolerable. Time for more than one beer. You must keep hydrated. If you could send 25 of those 50 degrees to us here in the UK we'd both be better for it. We are in summer but it's not summer; more like bummer.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
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Crikey! Where are you ?
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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He is sitting next to a chicken, in the oven.
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Yes indeed! I was well over 90 here in NC yesterday. I was planning to go to the lake today, but it clouded up last night and is threatening sever thunder and lightening storms. Gonna just stay in and work on my CV. ;) Though I might go play pool later.
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I have an idea for a solar powered air conditioner that's entirely feasible. The problem is as always the initial cost. Where is the pain threshold for how much people would pay for one?
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
I'm not sure where the threshold lies, Jorgen. A new unit costs about $3500 - $5000, installed. But the operating cost - given our 6 month summers - can easily run $900 - $2400 a year. If you can guarantee a 10 year lifetime, I think you could sell it for between $8000 and $12000, depending on the size. Since most people can't simply write a check for that amount, you'd do best to offer a financing program that requires little down and long terms, but there's interest to be earned on that, as well. I'll be looking forward to being a beta tester! :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
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He must be in Death Valley
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro - Hunter S Thompson RIP
Actually, I'm not. But it's not more than 100 miles away, I think, just over the Dead Mountains to the West, then North a bit. Same desert, though, the Mojave.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Actually, I'm not. But it's not more than 100 miles away, I think, just over the Dead Mountains to the West, then North a bit. Same desert, though, the Mojave.
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Roger Wright wrote:
Actually, I'm not. But it's not more than 100 miles away, I think, just over the Dead Mountains to the West, then North a bit. Same desert, though, the Mojave.
I watched The Last Stand with Arnold Schwarzenegger a couple of weeks ago. Your town gets a mention and the local police get absolutely wiped out.
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Wove. Sounds great. Here it's Sunday (Saint Peter and Paul) and tomorrow... It's Sunday again. And Brazil against Spain, but at midnight our time.. Still 20°C with wind, and in northern part of country (Switzerland), snow at 1800 meters... ;)
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I'm not sure where the threshold lies, Jorgen. A new unit costs about $3500 - $5000, installed. But the operating cost - given our 6 month summers - can easily run $900 - $2400 a year. If you can guarantee a 10 year lifetime, I think you could sell it for between $8000 and $12000, depending on the size. Since most people can't simply write a check for that amount, you'd do best to offer a financing program that requires little down and long terms, but there's interest to be earned on that, as well. I'll be looking forward to being a beta tester! :-D
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
I think you could sell it for between $8000 and $12000
That was actually a bit more than I expected.
Roger Wright wrote:
If you can guarantee a 10 year lifetime
How much of a problem is sandblasting where you live? How does a window pane look like after ten years in the wind?
Roger Wright wrote:
I'll be looking forward to being a beta tester!
You're geographically spot on as the aiming group, technical understanding is of course also a plus. Solar cooling has a few problems involved, such as storing the cold for the night, so I don't know if it's ever going to be useful in the tropics where the sun sometimes doesn't shine for very long times despite the heat. But the biggest problem will probably be to get it safe enough as it involves liquid ammonia.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Well it is almost July :cool:. So you had a cool spring. We only hit 42C and it is cooling off Monday (well they tell me it is.)
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Yup. At 17:00 MST, it's 50°C on the porch, in the shade. Time for a beer... :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
It was also terribly hot in Toronto today. Got all the way up to 75°F! :-D /ravi
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It was also terribly hot in Toronto today. Got all the way up to 75°F! :-D /ravi
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I want to move to Toronto! Anyone got a decent job going spare up there?
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Roger Wright wrote:
I think you could sell it for between $8000 and $12000
That was actually a bit more than I expected.
Roger Wright wrote:
If you can guarantee a 10 year lifetime
How much of a problem is sandblasting where you live? How does a window pane look like after ten years in the wind?
Roger Wright wrote:
I'll be looking forward to being a beta tester!
You're geographically spot on as the aiming group, technical understanding is of course also a plus. Solar cooling has a few problems involved, such as storing the cold for the night, so I don't know if it's ever going to be useful in the tropics where the sun sometimes doesn't shine for very long times despite the heat. But the biggest problem will probably be to get it safe enough as it involves liquid ammonia.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln
It's come full circle, eh? The first "air conditioning" units used liquid ammonia as a working fluid, because of its excellent thermal properties. Freon was later substituted because it's "safer," being chemically inert for all practical purposes. Of course, no one considered looking for holes in the ozone layer above us at the time, nor did anyone know what the free chlorine radicals released by UV exposure from freon molecules would do to ozone. We live and learn... :-D Sandblasting isn't a major problem here, though it does occur in some parts of the state. There are some parts along I-10 in the south part where sandstorms are almost constant, and I've seen a number of cars down that way with license plates which have no paint left on them. I have stopped any to ask, but I presume that wind-borne sand is the cause. It doesn't happen here, though. The Colorado River valley is rich in agriculture, so we don't have the miles and miles of open sand they have down south, and even there this is a limited area. Two factors make this a challenging environment - extreme temperature swings, and powerful, gusty winds. Both can be designed around, but I find few designers willing to believe how extreme it really is! Published climate information is mostly a pack of lies, since the official information is collected far from where people actually live, and I suspect the casinos are in collusion with weather agencies to keep the tourists coming.:suss: On the pricing, my guess might be high, but that's only because I can do the math and know that would be fair. That is not the case for most people in this region - math skills are mostly non-existent. And few people in Arizona make what could be called a fair wage. That might make it difficult to sell at a "fair" price here, but on the other hand, it's a great argument for doing the fabrication and assembly here. ;) Keep me posted on your progress with this project - it sounds quite intriguing!
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