Cool Surge Portable Air Cooler

Jul 18, 2008 8 Replies

There was a full-page ad for this in my local newspaper.



It is made in China and is supposed to use very little electricity and blasts out ice-cooled air. Sells for around $228.



The unit looks like a tall heater and can be rolled room-to-room.



No windows, vents, or freon is required.



How anyone used this and if so, what are your thoughts?



Thanks.



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It actually makes your house warmer!

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It blows air over blocks of ice which you've created in your fridge. Assuming your freezer is in the same house - a closed system - you're creating more heat than you're removing.

Google "cool+surge+scam" yields over three million hits.

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Good grief, it sounds like that ring you freeze and pop over a fan after you've frozen it. I've often wondered how that works, since the ice would melt quickly. LOL

Cheri

I've wondered about put a fridge in the wall, so the heat dumps out of the building. Of course, it would not work properly in the winter.

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The laws of physics still win. It uses ice blocks. You remove the heat from the block in your freezer. The freezer takes that heat and puts it back into the room. Then you put the blocks in the unit and they absorb heat making you feel cool right in front of it. Meantime, the block get hot so you put them back in the freezer and remove the heat putting it back into the room again.

It is close to a perpetual motion machine, but it has to actually add heat along the way from the mechanical devices moving the heat energy around.

Get a real AC that removes the heat from one place and puts it into the outdoors, not in another room of the same house.

flip it around and run it backwards.

A device like a fridge placedin a wall (or window) so that the "heat dumps outside" is called an air condioner!

A device like a fridge placedin a wall (or window) so that the "heat dumps outside" is called an air condioner!

Only if you leave the door open.Till then it is a fridge waiting to die.

replying to Edwin Pawlowski, Tex wrote: Yeah, but the fridge usually isn't in the room you are attempting to cool. I freeze gel packs to put on my forehead when I have a headache. That the fridge creates heat does not negate the cooling to my forehead.

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