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A group of Danes trying to save the word while keeping their Carlsberg cool have come up with a rather useful Green innovation. Earth cooled beer. This completely off grid solution is designed for the backyard patio or garden, relying on a hand crank to move beer from Mother Earth to the imbiber. The group's slogan is Save the world one earth cooled beer at a time and promotes itself with the testimonial "eCool is the greatest gift a man could wish for". No wonder the group can't keep up with demand.
I suspect between Danish love of the outdoors during the summer time, and drinking beer, this is going to be a hit. Hard to say how it'll do outside of Denmark but I have this strong desire to find out if the $350 price tag includes shipping to California.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by evilviper on Saturday May 31 2014, @02:55PM
Well, that's different... But not exactly in a good way.
Problem is, the next can in-line will usually be warm, as it rests just below the surface where the temperature would be much higher. People will be cranking and cranking this thing, feeling each can, trying to get a cold one that's been near the bottom for a while.
A better model is a bucket on a rope, inside a well... Everything in the bucket stays at the bottom of the well, where it's consistently cool, all the time, until someone raises it up to add or remove the contents.
And for the price I can buy a mini-fringe and pay for the electricity to run it for several decades... or an army of insulated "ice chests".
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 31 2014, @03:37PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 31 2014, @04:03PM
WGAS? I wouldn't trust any random web site that you have to allow scripting to browse it for the details on their product. Be nice if the editors checked for such and flagged them or refused to link such garbage pages that are seemingly like slashvertizements anyway.