busy morning.. the I took off earlish  (3PM) t go downtown with diane.. we ran errands including a trip to home depot that took several hours as I thought through parts for our latest project: a swamp cool er fir burning man

 

it can be really hot durign the day at burnign man.. and thas when you sleep. We’re trying a simple evaporative cooler aka swamp cooler. there are several designs out there on the web.. we borrowed from those, but have made our own design. it’s fashoned from a 17 gallon heavy duty plastic tub.. 

gabe and I worked in until about 2:30 this morning. 

 

 

the cooling works by pulling air through a saturate3d mesh,. then blowing the air on people. the act of evaporating the water is endothermic, which  cools the air that  goes through.. as much as 30 degrees. th e bad news is it only works in very dry climates.. 

 

 

it was fun workign with Gabe on this project.. 

 

this is the evaporation fabric.. 

colimn.. 

 

 

ok. 2:30 am// and I’m falling asleep.

nore tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me