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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: 2) by evilviper on Sunday June 01 2014, @06:08AM
The need to keep adding water, the smaller size, and the problem of freezing in winter.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 1) by jmc23 on Sunday June 01 2014, @04:47PM
The size is as big as you want to make it. Water is when you use it, but if you're really lazy you can always add a drip line.
Winter? Seriously? If you must keep your beer outside, just pack it in snow. It's an insulator you know.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Sunday June 01 2014, @05:28PM
Building as much capacity as this has, would make for a rather large and cumbersome pot.
If you'd bothered to read TFA, you'd see it's specifically advertised as keeping your beer FROM freezzing. Possibly more important than cooling it, in the far north.
Packing it in snow won't help, at all. Without an active heat source, or being removed to sunlight every day, there's nothing to prevent it from cooling down to freezing temperatures. Besides, that's a lot of (unnecessary) care and labor that could be avoided.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 1) by jmc23 on Sunday June 01 2014, @05:50PM
So, you've never went camping in the snow have you?
Since you hadn't bothered to read what I wrote, I'll repeat again, snow is an insulator. Leave your eggs on top of snow and they'll freeze, pack them in snow and you just get cold eggs.
As a potter, it would be trivial to hand build a 24 capacity horizontal gravity fed one that's loaded on the top and you pick up your can on the other side. Of course, i'd add fiber to the mix to increase porosity and wicking. Actually, it would be trivial to design for a potter, and trivial to build out of slabs for most children.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Monday June 02 2014, @12:27AM
I did. Your assertion is just mind-numbingly wrong.
An insulator is not a heater... An insulator only SLOWS the amount of time it takes to reach equilibrium with outside temperatures.
Nope. That can only work, slightly, in the short-term, and only when temperatures are just a small amount below freezing.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 1) by jmc23 on Monday June 02 2014, @12:44AM
And just how long are you going to hang outside drinking your beer in the winter you fucking idiot?