Comments on: How to Cool Yourself Without Air Conditioning

By: Health Juice :

Health Juice : — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:35:41 +0000

ceiling fans are great for cooling a warm room with large area. i prefer them over multiple desk fans”`,

By: Michera D.

Michera D. — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:23:45 +0000

We used to have air conditioning where we work, then the units failed, and management decided it was too costly to fix them. We live in North Carolina, and needless to say, the temperatures start reaching 90 degrees and above early in the year. It is now almost mid June, and we are sweltering in the heat! Our manufacturing plant has a few dock doors, none of which are in most of the working areas. It is a closed up building with nothing but old fans mounted high on poles stirring around all the hot air. Sometimes, I feel like I am suffocating and will pass out!

I am definitely going to try some of these ideas, starting first thing tomorrow morning, which is forecasted to be “again”, in the mid nineties! It is a matter of survival now! The way jobs are so hard to find, let alone keep, during this time of economic crisis, we have to do whatever it takes, (if we have a job), to keep that precious job, just to pay the bills! I’m all for great ideas on keeping cool, instead of literally “losing our cool”, like I usually feel when I am departing out the exit door of the cool, comfortable offices of our customer services department, CEO’s office, and secretary’s office! We pass them on our way out, while they gleefully chat in dry, clean, nice smelling clothing. I feel a slight moment of pleasure, however, just knowing that I have left them my “not so sweet” scent, as I drag myself out to (thank God), my smelly, air conditioned car!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:27:49 +0000

My office is like a sauna in the summertime – these tips just could be my saviours, thanks!

By: davesworkout

davesworkout — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:31:37 +0000

When i want to cool down at work (in a hot hot hot restaurant kitchen), we throw damp towels in a bucket of ice water, and just keep one rolled up on the back of your neck. That one spot can really make your whole body feel cool.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:16:44 +0000

Andrea…right you are. This is also called Evaporative cooling. It works because it takes energy (heat) to change water from a liquid into a gas (vapour). Thus as the breeze blows over the spray or drum of water, it evaporates the water taking heat out of the air. You need to leave a window open on the far side of the room/house to let the hot air out.

This is covered in an article on our site here:
http://www.greenterrafirma.com/evaporative-coolers.html

Take a look around… you could be surprised by all the tips you find!

Enjoy….

By: andrea schmitt

andrea schmitt — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:42:20 +0000

in the desert southwest they use something called a swamp cooler. its for areas without any humidity. there is a drum fan and it has small water nozzles in it that spray a mist of water into the whirling fan. the fan blows the mist into the house altho it is not seen as a mist because it is super evaporated because of the lack of humidity in the air. the misty blowing air hydrates the area just enough to feel cool. its almost the reverse of an air conditioner which actually freezes the humidity in the air and removes it which then drips out of the bottom of your air conditioner to the outside. funny how both of these ideas work even if they are opposites, they create the same effect.

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:53:08 +0000

I remember when I was a little girl, we did not have air conditioning and at night it would get so hot and we couldn’t fall asleep. So we would lay there and run our fingers ever so lightly on our bellys and it would actually give us goose bumps. We experienced many a sleepless nights here in Florida.

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By: amy

amy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:46:38 +0000

i used to put my huge salad bowl full of water in the freezer while i was at work.by the time i got home it was frozen solid then i would put in on a table with the fan blowing behind it.it was actually quite nice.