Spring Water Air Conditioner, staying cool on the homestead

 Just got home from making a video of our property in the Ozarks and it sure was hot but with my redneck air conditioner we were able to sleep pretty good and the best thing is it was free, well to run anyway. This was a trial run so its pretty much hob cobbed  together and while it was not cold air because I ran  a line at least 600 ft on the ground so it warmed up somewhat before it got to the radiator, but it was cool enough to help a lot.
 If anyone has done anything like this or have any ideas on how to make it better feel free to comment.
 Here is my video


Thanks for watching and God bless.

I think that even a run of 600 feet would be fine if it was in a trench, even a shallow one. I mean, it would cool the trench itself for a bit, but if it ran continuously, that would be a fairly minor thing, as there'd be no more, or relatively little more, heat energy left in the soil surrounding the trench to warm it.

That's pretty awesome, William. I like the piped spring water idea for cooling, and I think it might even apply, to some extent, to purpose-built dual-mode hydronic systems, where it's conventional hot water in the cold season, but circulates cold spring water in the hot season. That would need to then go into a holding tank or something for irrigation, so as to not be wasted, but still, it's a damn sight better than sticking a noisy box in a window and generating more heat than is being removed from your dwelling and pumping it into the atmosphere.

-CK

Chris Kott, Thanks, glad you liked it, When I get to it I will save the run off into a natural swimming pond I plan to build. I have also been thinking about building a cooler with a radiator inside instead of a refrigerator, it would be on the north side of my house and would also have a small door to open to the outside in cooler weather to keep things cold inside. We are starting with raw land and will be off grid, I love the challenge.
 If you aren't lucky enough to have a spring you could build a cistern or use an old well to circulate the water with a solar powered pump. I have built several septic tanks by digging a hole about 5 ft. round and 5 ft. deep, put several layers of welded fencing and about 2 in. of sand cement mix. Pour a top and bottom and you have a really cheap solid tank that will hold up for years. It would probably be better suited for a  dual-mode hydronic system too.
 Thanks for watching and feel free to check out my other video's if you get time, I'm kind of a redneck innovator, my videos not quality but most of them are my ideas.

Okay well I'm from cass arkansas.  Lots of springs, my father showed me this ole hole in the ground and explained to me this is how pioneers kept there food cool they would sit the milk ect. Down in this rock box in the ground the size of a good size yeti ice chest the spring ran through that box to keep the food cold it  Continuously of course kept running through the box year round. Then there was like a notch in the side of the box where the water would drain out And the stream would continue on.  I've always thought of a way When we were camping To utilize the stream and many other streams that we camped by 2 benefit me. Just too recently I have decided I'm going to make AAC unit with that continuous running stream My plan is to put a star phone My plan is to put a  Styrofoam ice chest with holes poked inside and fill it full of ice then take my fan I have a few fans that are power by solar and a few powered by battery and in the lid of the ice chest take an dryer accordian style aluminum vent pipe and place my smaller fan inside the vent tube coming from the lid of the ice chest blowing toward the outer end of the tube (might use pvc instead) will use GREAT STUFF to seal the pipe to the lid that ice should last at least one night if properly covered with either wood or something that will absorb the heat since it will be sitting inside a hole in the middle of a stream holes poke all around as well as a in hole bigger hole and out hole bigger hole will have to use mesh so that I won't loose any ice. What do you think will it work. 😉