Air conditioning in my house! (...er...not exactly...) 
My house gets bloomin' hot upstairs at the slightest hint of sunshine. One photon hits an upstairs window and it becomes an oven! If I open the windows it makes hardly any difference. By some quirk of engineering I cannot get any airflow through the windows whatsoever! So, behold the first improvement to my house - designed and built by yours truly...

Oh ok, it's just a fan at the window with a bottle filled with frozen water (you may even call it ice) stood in front of it! ;-) But do you know what? It actually works pretty well! It's dropped the room temp by 4 whole degrees! If I stand in front of it, it feels lovely! I would try it nude but I don't think I'll get away with it again (not after the petition anyway)! ;-)

It's all part of an experiment - I have a plan to build my own air con system; when I think about it, it should be easy to do (the times I've said that...). I need to draw cool air in (and maybe chill it - I plan to use something slightly more sophisticated than a bottle of ice!) and dump hot air (namely from my LAN) out of the window.

At the moment my primtive air con does part of that - the ordinary household fan draws the cool air in through the window and blows it across the ice bottle. It feels cooler but I think I can do better!

The pic (if you really want to see) can be viewed by clicking the 'Related Link' at the bottom of this post. The net is to stop fit teen girls staring in at me (its become a real problem of late!).

Anyway, once again, my regards to Mr. Heath Robinson!



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