Keep Cool and Beat The Heat Without Air Conditioning
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- Keep cool without air conditioning this summer and save money at the same time. Will a homemade AC unit work to beat the summer heat and can frozen underwear keep you cool?
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Basement Floor by Silent Partner
Lights Go Out by Tristan Peace
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How small channels are better than big ones
Vihkol indeed
absolutely
I guess because big channels get to a point where they outsource whereas small do everything personally, so it feels more personal and aligns with their creativity
I live in Arizona too. I freeze water in a water bottle and place it on the carotid artery in my neck and/or the femoral artery in side my thighs (a Big Gulp works good here especially in the car). By cooling these main arteries, the cooled blood gets circulated, and thus the whole body gets cool. (I slip a clean sock over the bottle to absorb condensation and to protect the skin on my neck from frost bite.) This also works for those neck wraps. I freeze them, but when I tie it around my neck I make sure that it's tight enough to be touching the carotid arteries. As an engineer, I'm surprised you didn't think of this one. (Actually, I discovered this method by analyzing the Big Gulp between the legs method, because my Dad's truck didn't have A/C nor a cup holder.) Stay Cool. xoxo
These are really great ideas! I'm an engineer, but not a biologist, which may be why I've never really heard of this.
Super Bro! Two arteries...to cool down! good idea! 💥💥🙏🙏
@@chargeeverywhere 😂 Good point!
Don't use ice cubes. Use frozen water bottles. Turn the fan on low. Keep the water bottles (1 to 3) close to you (about 2 ft.) and the fan further away (8 or 10 ft.). Keep spares in the freezer. Change as needed. Your not cooling the room. Your cooling you. You'll still be hot but you won't be dead.
Edit: make sure the bottles are in a pan to catch condensation.
I freeze green bottles (Sprite) 2 Liters, Gatorade bottles, yogurt tubs, Tupperware...
Place a tent in the location you spend most of your time and focus your cooling device primarily on chilling the tent.
Aside from the music being too loud, this is better than a lot of the bigger channels on TH-cam.
Tried most of that in the past.. the ultimate best is the window fan... blow in when temp is below 75-78 and blow out when it's above 80.. works real good but when it's impact runs its course, you've got no other choice than to crank up the AC or put on frozen clothes.. My problem with the ice is it makes the room more humid
Try sleeping on a hammock... it is much cooler than on a bed. Just make sure the hanging supports in your bedroom are strong enough to hold your weight. Also, for high humidity places, try using a dehumidifier. Even if the temperature doesn’t drop, sucking that moisture out of the air makes a world of difference. Btw, I hate when it’s hot and humid and I’m a spring, fall and winter lover ☺️
Hammock oh! "கயிற்று கட்டில்" in Tamilnadu! We people have forgotten those wonderful simple cot made up of cotton ropes as a mesh!!
Thanks for reminding that Bro!
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Cool idea.
In India we have "charpais", (four legged wooden beds) which are rope strung.
So your back won't have stored heat!
And now they're making air cooled mattresses!
You can buy stands for hammocks so no need to hook them to walls in side I use to sleep on hammockd as a kids since my family was to poor to buy beds.
Wish I had a better way as well. The mild-ish winters here in South Georgia save me money as I enjoy the cold. My electric bill usually hovers around the 50-60 dollar range, but the summers are brutal - made worse by horrible humidity that can make 76 feel like 86. To keep from hemmoraging money I raise the temperature when I’m not at home to around 78 degrees. Then I drop it a couple degrees when I get home and then drop it some more when the sun goes down so the unit doesn’t have to work as hard to keep cool. Doing this, I usually keep my bill under 100 dollars except on the hottest of months when it goes a little over. Ceiling fans are a must and are in every room of my house except the bathroom. The only other bit of advice is to just try and get your body to acclimate to a higher temperature. Right now I’m struggling because our weather is a bit bipolar and fluctuates madly as we head into spring. Cotton clothing and meal prepping or using a crockpot to reduce generating heat also helps some. Oh, and I’m not an engineer or mechanic but I’ve heard that keeping your AC unit in some shade helps as it allows it to draw in cooler air (not 100% sure as this could just be guessing) as well as having heat reflective paint on your roof. I don’t know why on earth black is still the preferred colored roofing tile down here. Just cooks the homes. My aunt swears by her attic fan as well.
Sounds like you need a dehumidifier! lol. You want to have fans higher for blowing the hot air out and other fans lower to bring the cooler air in! Having some type of tree or bush by your a/c unit helps! Blackout curtains or something like that to keep a lot of the heat Out during the day! You want to keep everything closed up ..windows..doors... etc. Try to cook outside instead of inside if you can! BBQ or use a smoker....you can get a small cooktop for outside that has 2 or 3 burners and propane tank. There are a lot of ways to make the heat more bearable! I dont have central air and until recently..I didn't even have a window unit! I had to get creative to stay cool enough so I could sleep! lol. Good Luck!
I also have solar blocking curtains, leave cold water in the bathtub to help cool the bathroom, hang cold and wet laundry in the house to dry near a fan, and use ice packs under my clothes.
The production value is crazy now I’m going back to watch all of these videos
It’s so hot that the glass of water next to my bed has become warm.
night time.Use a mist sprayer to dampen a sheet on your bed, tun a fan on get under the sheet and the fan will evaporate the water taking your heat with it. I think this technique originates from Texas. you can have the fan plugged into timer socket and have the fan go on an off periodically through the night to economize
Not a bad idea. I like the timer idea on the fan too. That gives me some thoughts on my conventional fans - without the wet sheet.
Even more effective if you take advantage of the cooling chemical properties of peppermint. I mix a _sparing_ amount of peppermint oil (because a little goes a long way) with drinking/distilled water in a spray bottle. Not only does it elevate my mood because of the great scent, I feel a nice, tingly coolness.
Fun video, and useful. I'm considering getting a few of those silver reflective windshield screens and putting some velcro strips on them so I can easily put them up on the windows that get the most blazing sun in the morning, and remove and fold them up when they're in shade. Seems like it'd help block more sun than the shades I've got and retain more of the coolness from the night. I do use the trick with the box fan, and have a portable AC. Just ordered a second one. Have I mentioned I hate the heat?
I, got 2 brand new air conditioners installed back in April. I’m keeping cool and comfortable!!
I’m sticking with the A/C To keep cool!!
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First... leave home as soon as it seems a bit warm... turn on the AC in the car. Only visit or shop in air conditioned environments the ENTIRE day until you see that the temperature is dropping... then .. get home right before it cools off enough for the neighbors to turn off their AC .. you want to capture their last blasts of cool air leaking into the hallway. The hallway will be cool because the ac air was moving into the hallway... leave your apartment door open to allow the cool air to rush into your home. Then close the door. Repeat...
You could fill cardboard boxes with cool air from your car and bring them into your apartment too. 😉
Or just stuff some cool air into your pockets. If it is quality-cool, it'll last you over a week. However, nobody likes stale air. So if you can avoid farting, you cool.
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Lol
@@chargeeverywhere 😂🤣😂
Hey!
I lived in a garage-type of building for a while, in Stockholm.
The building was poorly insulated and had a black, flat, roofing.
On really hot summer days i sprayed a layer of water, using the garden hose, on the roof. The rapid vaporization of the water on the roof cost energy and therefore reduces the temperature. Actually worked quite nicely.
That's a really great idea! Come to think of it, my friend and I tried the same thing on the roof of my black car when we were driving through the desert without AC. Not sure it worked too well though as most of the water just blew off.
Ah, would have been nice with some friction there maybe... Shirts around the roof and jammed in window? Another road trip cooling trick is of course to cool drinks in a wet sock, outside the car window... Works like a charm and in the same principles! :-)
@@chargeeverywhere 😂🤣😂
Modern AC systems are not so bad with energy consumption as the older ones. You can get one now that uses much less power and can keep your place comfy, if you have good insulation. And they are getting better all the time.
Frederick Jones invent the air conditioner.
One of the most prolific Black inventors ever, Jones patented more than 60 inventions in his lifetime. While more than 40 of those patents were in the field of refrigeration, Jones is most famous for inventing an automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks and railroad cars.
I love the frozen underwear! Works 100%!
😂🤣😂 Love it!
just turned the fan to face out and another fan to blow on me a little and i felt a difference pretty fast.. also have heard to close windows during the day when there is a lot of heat and open them back in the late evening and early morning
I have done the later for years, with success. Here in Chicago it goes into the 90s and might not cool til 70 by 11 pm. Also we keep the shades and curtains closed almost all summer on the south side. When using a/c, we close upstairs vents days to maximize cooling 1st floor. At dinner, we open upstairs vents and close off half downstairs to focus cooling upstairs for nights.
Keeping your light off during the day helps a lot! Drinking cold water helps you stay cooler and hydrated! When you body heat goes up, the water helps it cool down.
Who turns light on during the day?
I hang curtains fresh out of the washing machine while still dampf. Also mopping the floor with ice cold water helps. But careful to don't leave a stain on the floor.
You look like wreck it ralph
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Haha. Never got that before. I'm nowhere near big enough 😂
Dd I was thinking the handy man not Ralph haha
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Graham you right
I wish I knew how my Mom did it. She would place box fans in the windows so that some were blowing out, and some were blowing in, and it created a constant breeze in the house, even on hot days. She was
Oops! wasn't finished. Anyway, my Mom was from Arkansas, and she just seemed to know how to set it up just right. When you walked into our house you would have sworn we had central air. I just don't know how she did it, but I know there's a certain way to do it, and I wish she were here to tell me how, so that I could save on the huge costs during the Summer months due to using my central air.
That’s awesome! Your mom sounds incredible!
I'm trying that theory right now. About a 1,200 sq/ft first floor. The humidity outside is killing me though. Northern Maryland.
I need help in 45°Celsius (113°Fahrenheit), I love living in Sydney but hate the heat
@@vickisullivan847 simple theory of hot air rises, and cool air basically stays lower than the hot air. So she blows out the hot air and blows in the cold one i would guess. Unless you tell me the box fans are aligned symetrically horizontally, then it's back to the drawing board for me :)
Great video.
Am trying out the last one where you close all windows & have the fan facing outside sucking the warm air out of the house.
Thanks! That is an effective method. It does take some time to pull all of the hot air out of the house during the night though. I like to use a fan blowing on the bed to supplement the cooling while the window fan removes the hot air from the house all night.
I have 3 years towards my BS in ME and can't stand the sight of blood. I couldn't even dissect the squid. But if you stop and think of the body as a huge hydraulic system, wouldn't the most prudent place to put a cooling system be on the two mainlines before they split off into the extremities or subsystems? I need to do some research but it makes a difference on which side of the body you put the frozen water bottle. I'm remembering that if you put the bottle on the left side of your neck, your head cools down first. And once my head is cool, my brain tells my body that it is comfortable. If you put the bottle on the right, your body cools and it takes the brain a lot longer to relax and feel comfortable. Try it and let me know what you think. xoxo
Interesting...will have to try that sometime!
Great idea's. The frozen shirt sounds good on a hot Texas night. Our summers are brutal. I like the all metal fan. Most are cheap plastic. Where did you get it?
Man you are lovely. Please don't change when you will have millions of subscribers. I'm sure you guys know what I mean
The methodical homemade AC build/test footage cutting to his utterly calm narration of its failure reminds me so much of a Wes Anderson character 😂
The fan on the window sounds like a great idea. But I dont want to be shot by a crackhead while sleeping
apply the principles that Willis Carrier applied to de-humidify the air, increase the velocity/volume of the air moving over the body, like your Father did use the natural cooling of the night air to ventilate the structure. Installing a bio-wall depending on your annual humidity.
I will choose getting solar panels and applying your solution of slightly open windows and one window extracting air from the house.
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As an Engineer in the past (now am a psychologist) I have seen lot of houses that do not have the old exausting system (like little slit openings or exhaust fans) at the end of the roof, where only heated up air is being stagnant in acute summer days! So,
If a small 15 inch by 2 inch rectangular opening in each room can be made, all the heat will escape easily now and then by itself! (Yes! Small issues would be there from insects, that can be meshed up) That awareness is missing everywhere! Plus, you can do all these things said in the video and friends said in the comments too!
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in a desert climate you could put a wet towel in front of the fan? same principle as an evaporative cooler. one summer in the desert a one month AC bill was 1200$! Evap cooler changed it to 300-400$ for 2300 sf house
Get a couple of ice packs, put them each into a sock and use them as a cool alternative to the hot water bottle when you go to sleep. They will mostly stay cold until morning.
A good fan set about 2 - 3 feet away from a window blowing it out a window will increase wind flow very well
I love the ice cream idea!!
southern Californians need this.
Facts
When you change your bed sheets, put them in the freezer and put them on your bed.😀
Haha. That would work. It’d be memorable if nothing else.
It would sure cool down a hot boner. That alone can lower a city's temperature by 30 degrees.
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Sherrell Zitting Favorites huh?
@@chargeeverywhere 😂🤣😂
Green (Sprite/7up) bottles don't warp. Freeze em all. Use em in coolers & to keep cool. Drink it if needed.
put up a fast high canopy tent like shade on the East, South and West side of your house. paint one side any dark color and the other side should be white to reflect the sunlight
Evaporative cooling systems. Only works when humidity is low though.
Circulate water on the roof through gutters in a rain water harness barrel using drip irrigation sprinklers, High head solar operated pump.
Move to Alaska, Antarctica, Greenland, Russia, or China ;)
Haha. Yea, that would work :-) I'm kinda partial to Alaska
Yellowknife.. high in the summer is 62. Don't worry about the winter, you will survive the frozen lakes
Eh, San Francisco would do.
Cooling the room takes lots of energy. Cool the body. They have vests that you can put in the freezer at night and wear during hot hours in the day. If you have windows with screens, replace with heavy screen material that blocks out 90% of sun rays so it doesn't heat up the window glass.
How about a heat pump with the waste side used to generate electricity ? Would it be possible to create a big enough temperature difference to boil water and generate electricity ?
I find small window fans don’t do anything to get cool air but I’m thinking of putting film on the windows they claim that works. Well I’ll let you know how it works out
I live in and old 1970 mobile home so my home has no AC so I'm gonna try some of these methods the only method i can't use is the window one since i have one window that doesn't open due to weather damage from its old age but hopefully the other methods will work.
please make more videos on saving electricity and energy consumption.
caution others when doing this one: pour water on the floor. Tile hopefully. This method AND feet in water (doesn't even have to be ice) while fans are on saves my life in the 2nd story of a unit with no AC (portable AC neighbor lent me only turned on sometimes when temperatures are 90 and above)
I didn't learn a damn thing but dude your funny! Laughter made me warmer though... i have a 25,000btu window unit on right now to cool me back down. Thanks for the video!
So I try to use air as I can. Like for example opening 2 windows at a adjacent room. Or I try to close all currents in all rooms. Or sleep without any cushioning, but on floor aka futon bed. Another ways are to get active at night and sleep through out the day, summer hibernation to simplify it. For an idiots, rubbing a toothpaste on any skin surface (including a croch, armpits, behind the neck, and lower back) would help.
I realize this video was done a couple of years ago, but as I type this, it is June 6, 2019. I want to know just the basics to cool myself down just while sleeping. I do have a fan. I have spray bottles to squirt myself. What other BODY coolers can I use so I can get a restul night's sleep. Maybe you can wrap it up a little with, say, using a fan in front of ice (I think you said that was a bad idea). So stay hydrated, got that. Is there is there any kind of invention like a matress coollant? I take my sleep seriously, so please do a review for me and others. I love summer, but if I don't get good sleep, I am a grouch. Thanks!
Cooling mats
Use one of those ice bags with the lid that unscrews that you can get from a pharmacy that is used for bumps and bruises. Just dab it up and down your body and hold it to your forehead and your cheeks until you are cooled off. And when your not using it put it in the freezer or an ice chest. They keep ice for a long time. You can also eat ice cubes. I also love to take really cold showers in the summer time.
Take advantage of a much larger and semi free heat pump called the earth. Maybe at scale this will cause some problems but being the middle of a desert, you can cool you space by running a heat pump in a subterranean loop. (basically cooling to ground water temp 365 days a year)
Very entertaining,some good ideas,especially the ice cream!
I do a lot of these. Recently I bought two 8 by 11 inch gel packs on amazon for $16 . You can sit on them, stand on them put them like a pillow totalky cooling and they stay frozen for hours
His dads technique at the end made no sense. He said close ALL THE HOUSE windows except for the one in his bedroom blowing air out. He said then it would cool because it drew all cool air in through the windows. But all the other windows were closed!
Living in Greece and tryna sleep at night I’m the summer is the hardest thing ever. My AC don’t work
It’s 45° Celsius and I only have a thick blanket and mosquitoes
Super Bro!
From Tamilnadu India!
Congratulations!
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You need a larger fan.I use fan that are at least two feet wide.Also you need to go to the lowest ground in your houses apartments room and open all the windows. This is not safe to do in America especially in big cities where they don't have gun control. If you have a nice clean basement you should go there because heat rises.I rented on a nice clean basement once and it was always so cool there that we didn't even need a fan.
Very funny and informative. Thanks for your sense of humor
Thanks!
The wet shirts allows you to mop the floor with water as well as keeping you cool for a few minuets, absolute genius, sure!
What about filling balloons with water and freeze them? This is how I would replace the ice cubes to get rid of the water.
You could do that. However, you'll still run into the issue of using more energy to freeze the ice than you get (in cooling energy) by melting the ice. If you didn't have AC though it might be a good idea. You could just hang them all over the house and re-freeze them as they melted.
@@chargeeverywhere That would be interesting.....hmmm
so basically window fans are the most efficient ways to cool your house without ac
actually swamp coolers are and he fails to mention them at all
Don’t put your feet in ice water it will give you a headache because blood will go away from your feet and to your head thanks though🙂
Your videos are very interesting, video presentation is amazing. Please make more such videos...
brilliant thanks very much
Exhaust is a good idea... Try to exhaust heat air from the room...
Agreed!
It’s 45 degree Celsius where I live and no I don’t live in a desert
Don't say it is Punjab
How about evaporative cooling? It's endothermic.
And wet too. I think it might work, but not when it's really humid - like it can be around here. Some days I'm sure we've been pushing 90% + humidity. In Arizona it's a great idea!
I would looove to have those mosquitos nets in my windows, the heat in here call every mosquito in the city, it's horrible
That doesn't sound fun at all. Perhaps you could stretch a screen or mesh of some sort across the window - not sure what you have available in your area.
Breyer's coffee ice cream! Mah man! Are you from New England? That's mainly a New England flavor for ice cream.
Yea, that’s my favorite! Not New England, but close. I was raised in northern PA - about 40 min. From Upstate NY.
How can you freeze your underwear before the electricity was affected
Yehpoblem fridge not working and water n taps warm
The best way to cool efficiently is to use a air cooler, Iam not sure what its called in the USA. The concept is the you trickle water over a porous surface like hay or cardboard fines and put a fan infront of it. Here the water evaporates and doing so reduces the temperature of the air which is blown by the fan into the room. There is water pump which keeps the water flowing over the hay/cardboard fins. Total power used might be around 100Wats for a nice big cooler for a room. The catch is this only works in places where its hot but humidity is low, if the humidity is high then the water doesnt evaporate and the cooling effect is greatly reduced. Also you can add ice to reduce the water temperature to improve cooling. Eg th-cam.com/video/m3PxzQwVOyo/w-d-xo.html
Swamp cooler?
Yes, but not in a casing. It's to pre-cool the air (thus the name he used: "air cooler". If I read it right, it's not a box, just water and a porous material.
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What, put a bail of hay by the door, use a tap hose to infuse it with water, and a fan to blow that shit in your face? The hay bail is the cooling unit, the "box", without a box like swamp coolers have.
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Damn, that was informative. A little difficult to hear you at some points.
Thanks! Sorry about that.
A huge waterbong (watertower) is one of the cheapest ways to stay cool! but also huge
not sure wtf u talkin about.p bongs don't keep u cool u smoking too much bro
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Love it. Keep it raw!
Nice thanks
Great vid
Thanks!
I saw on TH-cam where someone got copper pipes put it on front of a fan wrapped it around the metal the cage and then put a fish tank pump in ice cooler connected to the metal coils copper coils and put it on the fan was blowing also copper pipes attached on front of fans cage cold air was been blown out.
That's a pretty neat idea!
the fans blow the air in or out???
They push the warm air out, which pulls cooler air in through the open window.
Drink eat anything cold actually warms up your body. Your body works harder to warm up those cold things to your body tempture.
Yea, that is an issue there...
What about humidity from the 8lb ice? 😅
Haha. Yea there would be a bit of that. Really, I don't think using ice (in a bucket or pan) makes much sense at all.
@@chargeeverywhere Depends on what your trying to do. If you are trying to cool off a room...no doesn't make sense! But if you are just tying to cool yourself off so you can sleep...then it can be helpful! I can deal with the heat until its bedtime! lol. Then its a problem for me! lol. Especially since my bedroom is on the 2nd floor and only 1 window works! lol. I'm renovating an old house and its ....taking longer than expected! lol.
You should lay off the icecream before you have a heart attack
great video!!
Thanks!
Awesome! Awesome! Incrível!:)
Great sideburns, respect!
...self power 46 * 12dcv with solar around your house..create a tornado room..
I bring my laptop to cafe when it's hot outside, call a coffee and enjoy free wifi till evening :D
Nice! I'm doing that currently.
and the coffe cost more than 1 day ac usage
U look like football star G. Bale from Wales
Wet a towel but it on your shoulders
Passive air conditioning wall. Shalom
nice video
Glen Frey
Stay lean, drink lots of water, run around naked, take a bath iin a tub of jello you should be good to go.
ICE BUCKET CHALLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha. That would work too 😀
I live in cali and ice isnt a penny, so now what
Jack Pozar it is if you make it yourself. Not talking a bag of ice here. Get an ice cube tray and make your own.
He looks like spider man
Haha. You're not the first to say that. Thanks!
u look like kj apa