Our very own Jordan Pfost in an engineer in the making. Most of you when you see a picture like the one above, your not to sure what to think; well Jordan looks and sees beauty. Jordan's plan? Turning a normal AC window unit to an "Ice Bear" when the energy usage is at its peak. Now whats an "Ice Bear?" An "Ice Bear", well in Jordan's terms, is a contraption that takes a normal window unit (or any AC unit) which is hooked up to a chest freezer so that at those peaks of high energy usage the AC switches from using a compressor/ condenser to moving the refrigerant through a large block of ice to cool the air.
While Jordan is still in phase one of this project (research and planning) she has completed a very important portion. The picture above is the basic layout of Jordan's "Ice Bear", which was drawn after weeks of studying the workings of a basic AC unit. Next she will be working on a prototype, testing only the air cooling properties of ice.
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| A diagram drawn out by Jordan showing the way energy moves inside an AC |
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