Poor man's indoor heat pump - would it work?

That is some nasty stuff, especially Del Cabo.

Why do you have to do that ?

Not convinced given that polyester clothes wet fine without any wetting agent.

Your answer and Bob's make sense, but they're not true in the only case I'm aquainted with. The basement would warm up except for the cooling effect of the walls which are cooled by the earth outside, and the soil and water in the earth outside constitute an enormous heat sink, or absence-of-heat sink that doesn't get emptied. So it can run for 12 hours or more without the cool air output being any less cool. And again every day after that.

Perhaps the opposite pov is similar to the theoretical calculation that honey/bumble? bees are too heavy to fly.

As to humidity, any increase has not been noticed.

Members of my family have terrible allergies. Sheep dig and other preservatives in the wool and Cedar woudl put them in the ER.

You will have to trust my experience on this one

Look for the stickers on the Mexican produce. Covelli's is 90% as good as California Central Valley.

There are no preservatives in the wood wool, it is just wood with nothing added.

No I don't because I know that polyester wets fine without a wetting agent.

Go to the hardware store and talk them out a small piece of the blue pad. Wash out all the detergent. Dry it out and you will see.

Wool from wood? I thought you meant wool from an animal. Moths would love you!

In the wood case, it is cedar and the smell of wet cedar will send one of my family members to the ER. Cedar is very high in tannin and it acts like a natural pesticide.

Have fun explaining how the detergent lasts a year.

Yep, they make the wood wool from wood by cutting slivers off the original block of wood.

Wool is used for insulation, but not very often now.

Not convinced that mine is. And I do have cedar window cills.

Don't believe that. Never heard of anyone here getting that problem and most of the houses and industrial buildings did have swamp coolers in the past.

The wood wool in the swamp cooler pads doesn't and neither does the western red cedar window cills.

Fraid not.

It lasts only about two weeks. That is why I add more

Perhaps they are "aspen"?

MCS/TILT (Allergies from Hell):

Also see: Swamp Coolers and Mold:

Are you certain of that?

Don't believe that either if the swamp cooler is used daily.

Unlikely, there isnt much of that here.

Odd that it doesn't happen here.

Never get any mould on mine.

Never get any mould on mine.

Yep.

That's not the wood my wood wool is made of.

Never got any mould on the rest of the wood I have used either, with the oregon facia boards or the cypress pine timber fence.

You need to exchange water every so often. If for nothing more than to remove the calcium build up. That washes out the soap

Where do you live?

The water is consumed all the time, basically pumped into the area you are cooling. The reason the badly designed swamp coolers need to exchange water every so often is because what is in the incoming water is concentrated as the water is consumed.

The best designs bleed a small amount of the water all the time so that you dont need to exchange water every so often.

Australia, well in from the coast where days over

And that would wash out the soap.