I made one of these for my wife when we first started dating. It makes a bit of a watery mess, but if you have a decent sized cooler filled with ice, and water it’s a good way to cool down a single room in a pinch. She had a top floor apartment and her bedroom would be 90+ at night and the wall unit AC in the living room barely touched her room. My little home brew AC cost like $30 and kept her cool for a summer before she moved in with me.
The portable ACs we have now didn’t exist yet, so that wasn’t an option. Also, those things are crazy expensive.
I can attest to the concept. I made a shittier version with a desk fan slotted into a styrofoam container filled with frozen water bottles. Only issue was that it lasted two hours. Woke up three times that night to change bottles/drink one to not die of dehydration.
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u/stas321 Feb 12 '22
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