[MR] Atlantia Digest, Vol 65, Issue 39 (Do These Things Actually Work)

[Davitt il Bigollo da Pisa]

At 05:11 PM 6/12/2008, Christopher J wrote:

>
>   It might work if you do a conopy bed with 
> heavy curtains. Mount it above the bed on a 
> shelf behid the headboard. You can always find 
> DC powered fans, and marine batteries. If you 
> have any electrical ability (or a friend who 
> does) you can hook up batteries ina sequence of 
> 3's. I can't give you any idea how, but when i 
> drove truck, my truck's fridge could run for 2 
> or 3 days with the engine off. RV's and camper 
> trailers have similar setups. The solar idea is 
> a great one. Could alos do a little dynamo on a 
> battery charged with a windmill if you're really ambitious.

Canopy bed with heavy curtains, soaked in water, 
will cool you but suffocate you. I'm not aware of 
anyone who has done this in hot climates. Usually 
people try to use the thinnest bobbinette 
possible that will keep out the insects and let 
in the air (breeze). (Spray the bobbinette with 
insecticide--Permethrin; Permanone--and you will keep out all mosquitoes.

>
>   They ain't cheap ideas, to be sure. I'm  more 
> concerned with finding a silent a/c for Pennsic 
> and other events than I am a cheap solution too 
> loud to be used. I mean, I can get a propane 
> fridge, and rig it over my bed so cold air 
> falls on me, but if a bunch of unhappy campers 
> stomp my camp flat to shut it up, I kinda defeated the purpose, yes?

Gas refrigerators are generally silent. They have 
no moving parts. Whether you would want to do 
this depends on how much propane you can haul around.

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