What air current should be used for a cool house if i cant use air conditioning?

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Answer 1

try window fans or fans in general. u can get the widow fans that use way less energy than air conditioners.

Answer 2

take everything out of freezer and put it somewhere safe where it wont spoil like a nother freezer. open freezer, leave it open

Answer 3

Try a fan blowing across a block of ice.

Answer 4

you could also just drink loads of bud light or coors light. both will cool you down :)

Answer 5

Portable swamp cooler.  cheap and works great.

Answer 6

Remember that heat rises and cold falls. Get two blower fans. Open a window up high for one fan, another down low for the other. This pushes the hot air out and brings cool air in. Try closing curtains to keep out the sun will also help. Then enjoy.

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Answer 7

Blow air through a wet towel with a fan.  It's a simple form of a swamp cooler. (heavily used in hot dry areas before A/C) The wet towel adds moisture to the air and cools the air.  Another good way to keep cool if you can't stay in front of the fan is to freeze a wet washcloth and place the washcloth on the back of your neck.

Opening the freezer is a bad idea...if the freezer door is open, the compressor on the back of the freezer will constantly run, which will actually make it hotter.

Answer 8

If you have an attic, try a whole-house fan. Since this is the conservation forum, maybe you can hook it up to solar panels, if money is no object.

Answer 9

I have a geothermal cooling system in my house that cost me about 20 dollars to install.  It hasn't gone through a whole summer yet, however, so I can't tell you how effective it will be.

Alin_, you idea of leaving a freezer open will not work.  Freezers, like all refrigeration devices simply move heat around.  In the case of the freezer the heat is moved from inside the freezer cabinet to the room outside of the freezer.  Since some energy is required to move the heat, and since no system is 100% heat efficient, some additional heat is produced by the freezer.  This is also passed into the room.  The net result of your idea will be a slightly warmer room.

Answer 10

Attic Fan

Answer 11

Use a fan behind a wet mat sheet. It is the ancient way for cooling places. Good lack.

Answer 12

u should just open a window and drink lots of water.

Answer 13

Bearing with it.

Answer 14

Open windows on opposite sides of the house, open all of the doors between the two and put a box fan blowing out in one of the windows.  It will force circulation through the house and make it cooler.  My grandmother did this all summer every year and it worked great.