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Posted by: Beth Snyder on: 03/31/2015 12:55 AM
If you're not familiar with swamp coolers, they're basically an air conditioner that uses passive evaporation of water rather than vapor compression. They use much less energy since they don't require electricity, and they're far more environmentally friendly.
Emerging Objects, a design studio based in California, has developed 3D-printed bricks that can act as evaporative coolers with the addition of some water. The idea is that warm air goes into the bricks, and as the water evaporates the air is cooled, leaving your house at a much more comfortable temperature. If an entire house is constructed of these bricks, the cooling effect is much more magnified.
Obviously, there are some climates in which these won't be particularly useful. But in hot, dry areas they would be something of a godsend. Instead of having to run an air conditioner 24/7, those folks living in places with dry heat (Arizona leaps to mind, but that's because I know people there) could just make sure their houses were kept watered and enjoy the cooling effect.
Emerging Objects is currently testing the bricks to determine exactly how useful in what applications they could be used, and is currently displaying them at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design through mid-April.
Source: Red Ferret
Emerging Objects, a design studio based in California, has developed 3D-printed bricks that can act as evaporative coolers with the addition of some water. The idea is that warm air goes into the bricks, and as the water evaporates the air is cooled, leaving your house at a much more comfortable temperature. If an entire house is constructed of these bricks, the cooling effect is much more magnified.
Obviously, there are some climates in which these won't be particularly useful. But in hot, dry areas they would be something of a godsend. Instead of having to run an air conditioner 24/7, those folks living in places with dry heat (Arizona leaps to mind, but that's because I know people there) could just make sure their houses were kept watered and enjoy the cooling effect.
Emerging Objects is currently testing the bricks to determine exactly how useful in what applications they could be used, and is currently displaying them at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design through mid-April.
Source: Red Ferret