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the sun is hot, so harvest the heat to make ice cubes.

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by baldguy61 September 17, 2007 1:57 PM PDT
Why not just use the turbine to generate electricity and save a step? Or better yet, use photvoltaic panels and eliminate the turbine? There are plenty of used RVs out there from which you could salvage the 12 vdc refrigerators. Then again, it may be my Southern Hemisphere genes that keep me from seeing the big picture.
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by greenconsrguy June 8, 2008 6:31 PM PDT
Dumb. It's just dumb. 12000 dollars to cool your milk. How about 200.00. How you may ask? Using a zen thermal pump. During the day the inserted 30 pound solar/ refrigerant "wick" is inserted into a collector. In the evening the "wick" is inserted into the refrigerator to continue the cooling cycle. You purchase two wicks so the cycle continues WITHOUT ANY BLOOD SUCKING CONVERSION LOSSES. Just the zen of changing the "wicks" every day. You buy only the "wicks' and sight make the refrigerator from scrap. POWER TO THE POOR!

solarconsguy says------POWER DOWN!!!!!!!!
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by uselessindian September 26, 2008 1:14 PM PDT
i would like to recommend
<a href="www.filter-outlet.com" title="Refrigerator Filters">Refrigerator Filters</a>
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by uselessindian September 26, 2008 1:16 PM PDT
i would like to recommend
www.filter-outlet.com
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