Kim, Garth, MIckey: Check out this link on passive air conditioning.
http://www.i4at.org/lib2/aircool.htm I have this stationed as a permanent link on my personal website, too. Demian http://www.knoton.com =========================== [Biofuel] Swamp cooler Kim & Garth Travis gartht at txcyber.com Thu Oct 21 12:37:26 GMT 2004 Greetings, Actually we rarely get to 115, but it does happen. Then I spend my day spraying the hose on my livestock so they can survive. Swamp coolers don't work well with high humidity. What I am doing is to keep the metal roof cool so heat does not build up and come inside, that is all. Bright Blessings, Kim At 08:58 PM 10/20/2004, you wrote: >Hi Kim, > >I'm fairly new to the list and have been lurking for a bit. >The comment >about the air conditioner was just that at that time they >had almost >not heard of air conditioners. I realize that Texas is HOT. >I wouldn't >work at 115F, let alone my computer. > >You mentioned you spray water on the roof for cooling. Does >that work >using evaporation something like a swamp cooler? The best >explanation >of how a swamp cooler works I have run across is at >http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/homeandwork/homes/>inside/ >heatandcool/evaporative_coolers.html . There is a chart on >the page >showing how effective a swamp cooler is under different >temperatures >and humidity. It may be helpful. > >Mickey > >>Message: 12 >>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:11:21 -0500 >>From: Kim & Garth Travis <gartht at txcyber.com> >>Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Trees and power companies >>To: biofuel at wwia.org >>Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20041020160910.01af6e18 at >>mail.txcyber.com> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; >>format=flowed >> >>I do have a wood stove for heat in the winter, and yes I >>do know how to >>cook on it. I am planning on building a wood bread oven >>for outdoor >>baking >>in the summer. Ohio is not Texas, where the temperatures >>can hit over >>115F, so AC is necessary, not just a luxury. I only cool >>my place to >>about >>80F. Any warmer and my computer refuses to work. >>Bright Blessings, >>Kim Content-Description: signature Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" [1]Fahrenheit 9/11 [2]The Son Also Rises [3]As Oprah Slaps Bush [4]From Crawford, TX [5]kcom.gif References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=knoton-20&path=ASIN/B00005JNEI/knoton-20?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1 2. http://www.knoton.com/den/TheSonAlsoRises.html 3. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/10/13/notes101304.DTL 4. http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm 5. http://www.knoton.com/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
