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Anyone do this at Burning Man?

• ghshephard 15y ago
  Unlikely. There is massive use of evaporative cooling techniques (We cool our domes with a pair of Essick 3301 coolers) - but the preponderance of (A) Electricity, and (B) ice at BRC would make it unlikely that anyone would futz around with this technology to cool food instead of air, particularly as all you would be doing is preventing food from spoiling, not particularly cooling it that much. I've often wondering if the critical ingredient that makes BM so popular (they won't even sell tickets at the gate this year they are so oversubscribed - might even sell out for the first time) - is that they sell ice at a number of distribution points on the Playa. Far more likely they put that energy into figuring out how to evaporate / dispose of their grey water.
  • JoeAltmaier 15y ago
    People at BM unwilling to futz around? Huh? Isn't that the point?
• hoprocker 15y ago
  I might try it out this year. One of the things that most appeals to me about BRC is the game of maximizing utility whilst minimizing resource consumption. The playa is incredibly dry and seems a perfect environment for this system. Yeah, you can buy ice for your cooler chest, but where's the challenge in that?
• quesera 15y ago
  10 or 12 years ago, I saw a guy who built a hay bale structure with an evaporative cooler at Burning Man. It was the first time I'd seen one in real life, and it worked really well (it was a hot, dry year...not all of them are).