Brendan Vaughan
Autor von What Would MacGyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life
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Before the editor lost the plot mid-book, however, there was at least one idea that could seriously help human comfort and energy conservation. Geoff Milburn, the fellow from Waterloo who invented the low-tech low-energy air conditioner, is a genius (as are most students from Waterloo, an engineering school famous for its high standards) and although I could not find his invention on UWaterloo's website at the 2006 web address in the book, I did find it on Wired dot com (and via Pinterest, on the Instructables site). https://www.wired.com/2011/07/diy-ac-heatwave/ This is something that I could and would most certainly do, the only important improvement being a way to make sure the water is reclaimed for reuse (rain barrel, drip irrigation). There's an excellent diagram in the book, too. Maybe it's a keeper after all! Or not.… (mehr)