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Master Cool Evaporative Window Cooler
Traditional air conditioners brutalize Ma Nature by hogging power and using toxic refrigerant chemicals, which can damage the ozone layer. Evaporative coolers, like this $600 model made by Master Cool, are kind not only to the environment, but also to your bottom line, slashing cooling costs by as much as 75 percent over standard air conditioners. The coolers work by sucking warm air through a water-soaked pad, which ices down the air before it's shot out the other side.
Traditional air conditioners brutalize Ma Nature by hogging power and using toxic refrigerant chemicals, which can damage the ozone layer. Evaporative coolers, like this $600 model made by Master Cool, are kind not only to the environment, but also to your bottom line, slashing cooling costs by as much as 75 percent over standard air conditioners. The coolers work by sucking warm air through a water-soaked pad, which ices down the air before it's shot out the other side.
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Subscribe to commentsLyn WingfieldApr 19th 2007 8:29AM
Commenting on survey on the Master Cool Evaporative Window Cooler page: What about those of us who do not use air conditioning? The survey assumes that everyone uses an air conditioner of some type.
Janet CApr 19th 2007 8:40AM
Good old "Swamp Coolers" are great for dry areas like New Mexico but wont work in the humid South and East.
TimApr 19th 2007 11:25AM
I don't have air conditioning
SSApr 19th 2007 12:01PM
If you don't have or want AC then move on. Clearly you have too much time on your hands if you're commenting on a gadget that will never pertain to you. I would love to look into this device if it saves my bottom $. My home gets so hot that we all hang out in the 1 room w/ the "expensive to run" AC. I'm not so stupid to not realize I need better insulation & decent windows, but that's way pricey & has to wait a bit longer.
Harry PresleyApr 19th 2007 12:03PM
The person who wrote thi has never used one. It won't "ice down the air". When its 100 outside, at 50% humidity you would probably get 92 degrees out of it. In the south we stay at 80% and up during the summer. It won't work at all down here.
MarieApr 19th 2007 12:50PM
I don't have and can't afford (to buy OR run) an air conditioner. Besides this one seems akin to blowing a fan over a bowl of ice, does it really work?
tom clemensApr 19th 2007 2:03PM
Yes they do work,as long as the humidity is under 35%.Also known as "swamp coolers"the outside ones work better than the all in one inside units.There are much better deals than 600 bucks.tom
LizApr 19th 2007 2:37PM
I use a swamp cooler in Arizona, it does not work well at best. During our monsoon it is horrible.
CharlieApr 25th 2007 9:12AM
I have used an evaporative cooler in So. Calif. (20-40% humidity), and found that the cool moist air was less comfortable than the warmer drier air. Not a good trade-off, as described above.
rwmApr 19th 2007 11:15PM
I used "swamp coolers" decades ago in Baghdad. Great there, most of the time, but if the humidity got higher than 12 or 15%, they were not worth the electricity they used. Also, don't even think of what it takes to clean one up after a dust storm turns everything to mud!!!
terryApr 19th 2007 11:58PM
i live in the mojave desert where it hits 114 easy in the summer and we never use air conditioning. swamp cooler works great, only time a/c may be used is when it hits 120 but even then it is rarely used. Some like it Hot.
churchApr 20th 2007 12:29AM
All of these gadgets are filthy expensive without reason. a window cooler like this should be half of a conventional one. Instead its 3 times the price. Saying it will pay for itself means nothing because the company president probably buys a new Hummer every year. Get real with green, the global economy cannot tolerate $600 coolers, $1000 exercycles and $100,000 tesla cars. The bottom line is these novel and pricy items only fuel more consumption by those that sell them and do little for the environment.
HarryApr 20th 2007 9:15AM
How come these manufacturers do not refine these & market them... I would get one of these, but the price is way too high for the average working class person.