Originally published at: Plastic bin with ice and a cheap fan for $300 | Boing Boing
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Delusional? Or culture jammer par excellence?
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Las Vegas area code. I gather folks get desperate in that part of the country at times.
Friend of mine in AZ told me once he tried attaching bags of ice to a ceiling fan and it ended poorly. No joke, otherwise one of the smartest guys I know.
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I mean it isn’t fake - it works to a degree. Just you can make one yourself for <$50.
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I tried a variation of this but with a 5 gallon bucket and a smaller fan, i can say that it worked great for like 5-10 minutes but it quickly will lose its ability to cool a person and it certainly will not have the ability to cool down a warm room.
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It’s called a swamp cooler and is not a new design. Usually they utilized a block of ice so it melted more slowly.
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Is this still available?
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Has it been tested and approved by underwriter’s laboratories?
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He tried… what, what?
Like, heavy bags of ice swinging from the blades as it spun?
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I was hoping it would be a contraption that dropped individual ices onto the blades from above, for maximal distribution of cooling power.
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An actual portable AC unit costs that much. There’s a very limited customer base.
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I really hope so.
depends on how hot it is in your area i suppose.
OHH Snap
This delusional entrepreneur is selling homemade fake air conditioners for $300…
Now, now… think about all the R&D that must have gone into developing this technology.
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That is what I got out of our chats we exchanged on the topic, yes.
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No, BB Store is slightly cheaper. 
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still probably works better than this:
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