$400?? That's insane.
An earth-cooled beer dispenser
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#12$400?? That's insane.
Where do you see that? I only see 1895 KR which google claims to be $285 worth of Swedish Krona.
Still expensive. Google might also be giving me the wrong currency.
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#15$400?? That's insane.
Yea, I wonder how long it takes you to make your money back on the fridge savings. Good conversation topic at least for the BBQ's.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depending on location, ground temperature tends to stabilize once you get a few feet down. Here in the northeast United States, it's about 60 F year-round once you get 15 feet below the surface. I worked for a company that was making direct-exchange geothermal heat pumps for homes - think about a big refrigerator whose coils are buried in the soil.
15 feet sounds pretty deep to dig to install something like this. Any idea what the temperature is like 2-4 feet?
It'd be good if this worked in warmer places like Australia, where you actually want to drink beer.
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#18It might be a translation issue, but "well insulated" seems like exactly what you don't want for this sort of cooler. Maybe they mean the top is well insulated while the bottom is not.
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#19I guess this is awesome if you really like drinking 55-60F beer.
Otherwise, this is luddite technology designed to appeal to ecotards.
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#20$400?? That's insane.
Yea, I wonder how long it takes you to make your money back on the fridge savings. Good conversation topic at least for the BBQ's.
I imagine it would be most useful for people who camp without electricity often. However dry ice is very cheap (like $1/lb cheap) and more convenient (you don't have to dig a hole) so unless you are camping very often or camp for very long periods of time, it would probably take a very long time to break even.
It is a pretty cool idea though, that alone could justify part of the price for some people.