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Save the World - One Earth-Cooled Beer at a Time

posted by janrinok on Saturday May 31 2014, @02:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-drink-to-that dept.

Hawkwind writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by jmc23 on Sunday June 01 2014, @05:50PM

    by jmc23 (4142) on Sunday June 01 2014, @05:50PM (#49946)

    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

    by evilviper (1760) on Monday June 02 2014, @12:27AM (#50040) Homepage Journal

    Since you hadn't bothered to read what I wrote

    I did. Your assertion is just mind-numbingly wrong.

    snow is an insulator

    An insulator is not a heater... An insulator only SLOWS the amount of time it takes to reach equilibrium with outside temperatures.

    Leave your eggs on top of snow and they'll freeze, pack them in snow and you just get cold eggs.

    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

      by jmc23 (4142) on Monday June 02 2014, @12:44AM (#50046)

      And just how long are you going to hang outside drinking your beer in the winter you fucking idiot?