125 Degrees in Baker, California

This is why Beer was invented. In all of it's forms, lighter blends for Hot weather Beer is a solution for this problem.

A Swamp cooler or a try at a Venturi powered heat exchanger might help if you have a windy neighborhood. A regular Air Conditioner is going to cost a bundle to run.

Yes, beer as a diuretic dehydrates the body, which when combined with 125 degree heat probably causes death. Once dead, the body no longer feels the heat, thus the problem is solved.

The sad thing is that the thought of a ice cold corona in that heat sounds really refreshing.

You wrote "A regular Air Conditioner is going to cost a bundle to run."

I agree and I've been thinking, this should drive up natural gas, right? After all, isn't that what is used to generate electricity in Las Vegas and Phoenix? Or is it the Hoover dam? If we're going to have record heat, we might as well make money off of it.

I imagine a day when all the homes and businesses in the west are covered with solar panels and they are saving tons of money creating thier own power for air conditioners. I imagine this because I hope one day to fish in the lakes here agin without worrying about the amount of mercury in the fish because of the coal fired powerplants that now provide air conditions to people who want to live in the desert or the Casinos.

The jet steam carries this toxic mix to the mountains and stream in the east and that just is mot right.

Solar panels..good idea, sit under their shade and drink that beer...hey they could even produce power.

Silicon Valley is having to get used to these temperatures. It wasn't like this before.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wheat7.htm

"Baker" ha ha ... I like that ... get it?

Being fairly close to the Hector Mines quake zone, it's Shaker n' Baker! I passed through there coming back from my daughter's wedding at the New York New York in Las Vegas on July 2. It was 118 degrees at 4 PM!

Las Vegas Ha! Human logic: "We could build a resort along the California coast!" "Oh no I have a brilliant idea let's build it in the middle of the desert so we can waste all that power from Boulder Dam on bright lights and air conditioning."

Most intelligent creature on the planet and we do the dumbest things. Like New Orleans, smack in the middle of hurricane alley and below sea level we build a thriving metropolis. I ask you, do these human endeavors make sense to you? It's really sad and somewhat laughable! We need another revision on this creation thing, as good as it is there's still some kinks!

Be prepared for the next thermal excursion upward.

Three phase fluidization, solid-liquid-gas, results in heat transfer
coefficients that approach those of condensation, thousands of
watts/m^2-C.

Here's an easy-to-build emergency beer/soft-drink chiller, faster than anything
on the market:

Get a 4" Y fitting for sewer pipe and plug the bottom. Cut a clear
plastic disk to plug the front hole and then run a short piece of
1/16 tubing flattened a little into a nozzle into the bottom of the
fitting. Connect the tubing to 90 psi air and fill the beer chiller
with small ice cubes, water and a warm can of beer.

You might want to add an oil filter between the compressor and the
chiller to remove the compressor oil which has a bad flavor.

Here's another opportunity to feel "first hand" the high HX of
fluidization. After a few seconds the cold will become painful.

Can you provide a diagram?

"Can you provide a diagram?" Not easily. Does the following help?

The canned drink cooler is nothing more that a home made fluidized bed heat exchanger. Use any kind of vessel that will hold a drink can plus room for packing crushed ice around and over the can. Then add water to the top of the ice. Introduce compressed air into the bottom of the vessel by small tubing or small nozzles in the bottom. The air will fluidize the water and crushed ice to maintain a near freezing temperature to cool the can and contents in record time.

The original description was provided by Bret Cahill. The side window of a DWV "y" with a window was for visualizing the fluid bed in operation but not necessary to the functionality.

So, when you put the 90 psi air in the bottom, what keeps the ice and beer can from shooting out of the container?

"put the 90 psi air in the bottom,"

Reduce the air pressure.

OR use "small tubing or small nozzles in the bottom. (Per Post # 11.)

OR both!

Hi Verm...your sig has got me worried...will listening into Lager give me fluid on the brain?

No, but it might make steam come out your other ear.

I'd say listen for about 15 minutes per pound.