Comments on: Chromasun to make solar air conditioner

Adapting solar thermal tech used at utility-scale plants, start-up designs system to use the sun's heat to power industrial chillers and drastically cut peak electricity use.

[tech_crazy]

Neat application! It was initially confusing how steam could be used for chilling, but then found out about absorption chillers.

[bradenisme]

I want one of these.

[Crius72]

Excellent Solar Application!

[Electro_Fox]

"The plan is to sell the solar air conditioner through exiting HVAC distributors."

So it will be like the last job said HVAC distributor does before he/she retires?

[maidensolo]

As far as a solar cooling unit prototype being ready in a couple of years, and having to try it out on a commercial building first,.....NPR (national public radio ) spent several hours on this subject last week and spoke with a company in Germany who has had a unit for commercial buildings operating for quite some time. They are efficient enough that they trust them to cool electronic rooms that require constant cool temperatures.. The units are large, but they now have a new unit the size of a washing machine that can cool a 1500 sq ft house. They are sending them to Pakistan, Australia and some of the Arab countries this year. They work on the primes of a refrigerator, they said, which involves running water over cooled cells several times, thus lowering the temperature and then blowing air over the cooled water and into the house. Any one determined could probably make a working model of their own. I remember the comfort of my grandmother's water cooler.
maidensolo