| Solar-Powered Car Cooler |
| Written by Hank Green | |
| Thursday, 20 July 2006 | |
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On a hot day in Florida, you might as well be baking cookies in your car. The sensation of damp skin sticking to hot pleather is not something I miss about the Sunshine State. But now there’s a solution, a partial solution anyhow, that harnesses the very power that causes car-broiling.
What I want to see is a device that harnesses the in-car heat and converts water into hydrogen or something while cooling the car off. I guess this is a good first step though. Priced at around $30 at Froogle. Comments
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written by Hotcars , April 08, 2008
I would like to see how effective it realy is. Did anyone test this solar powered car coller yet.
Not impressed
written by Seattle Roofing , October 28, 2008
I work a job where i have to sit in a hot car all day long, and I can't run it, so this was something I was highly interested in. HOwever I was disapointed to find that it doesnt work if you have dark tinted windows. When we put it in a window that wasnt tinted it started up but the coolness was not noticable.
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This cute little solar powered fan clips onto the top of
your window, blows out the hot car-trapped air, and sucks in ambient air
that is a mere 98 degrees.
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