People are spending boucoops de cashe to defend against global warming in the heat these days, but if you understand the physics as I've taught myself its a breeze. Use of natural methods are cheap and simple.. as with my other post about how to stay cozy in the winter you won't have to spend 30 years of research or pay for air conditioning as I did so cool is a luxury and somebody must so I can't say don't gotta be me!
As I say on my post about cooling in a heat wave, an ice bottle is awesome for deep cool in the heat for hours. You may also find this is superior to spray water bottles to cool your legs, since the spray bottle is messy and -a bit humid-like raining anywhere you walk with your own storm above!
My spray nozzles would always break like once with each visit out.. lots of spray jugs to buy.. you have to keep constantly spraying otherwise.. no wonder the handles would break.. But.. the ice water jug is one solid powerful chunk of ice..
While this has more power than I needed even up to the lower 90s, you could also combine a spray jug on the hottest days with the ice water jugs for outside especially if you cool the spray jugs before you use them in the box. People ask me what I see on TV or the box and I use it as a footrest and what I see on TV is my shoes.. snoring away!
I saw how I would sometimes drop my ice water jug also and it would break the cap and leak so that was why I started to put my ice bottles into outside nylon bags with loops over my shoulder.
I like to also set the loop so they're almost lined up and then use a carabiner clip which looks good and keep the ice jugs like 64 oz juice jugs tighter on my chest for much like having an expensive vest or the value at any rate..
Unlike with the spray jug where you spray in a few seconds, with the jug it goes deeper and is more satisfying even in the deeper heat more like for 30 seconds of relief instead of just five.
Even so while this is enough to go over most of your area to be cooled before you have to restart, the jug needs continuous use. As I say below I tried a vest made of cool pops but while they are cool they overheat eventually when I was outside for hours. Ice water jugs are simpler and I found they actually don't get too cold on your skin because of an insulated layer around the outside and also they cool your whole body down without having to move them around because you can just put one under each arm and your whole body uses this area as a thermostat like your feet and your face but this is just as good..
So here for the sake of completeness I want to say how I made the coolpop vest which might have some worth.. then I'll discuss other cooling methods that can be combined with the ice water bottles which I think is most advanced for outside..
I learned how to make cheap cooling packs for less than 5 bucks also based on the ice method and with as much volume of ice yet without having to tend it so constantly outside.
To do this I bought cool pops, you know the name of the summer ice treat filled with junk food, finally a real use!
I bought 2 like packs of these at my agriculture and household goods store like the ice jug worth about 64 ounces of ice.
Next I took large heavy zip locs and put in the cool pops. I used just a bit of heavy duct tape on both sides of the top (so it won't rip the zip loc) and punched a hole all the way through the bag and the tape.
Finally the pack is finished by using like twine, poly or nylon etc. and pushing it through the punched hole and then tying it in several knots so it won't fall as you use it in your outfit. You can also duct tape the line around so it won't loosen. The line may be about a foot and a half for your cooling pack for your chest. Then tie the other end to the other pack and cool it several hours in the freezer.
Since this is indeed the wonderous power of ice it may be too cool, so for this reason you may like a base layer if like me you like to not be in pain! I feel the burn! On the outside I use a nylon vest that's good looking cheap and durable. If you like you can make your own vest out of jackets in easy reach by buying the best looking nylon outfit and cutting off the sleeves and then sewing inside the cut edges if they are a bit uneven.
To use I just loop the twine and packs over both shoulders, and then zip the vest. If it's a bit to cool or hot just move it around higher lower elevator style and left to right. You won't have to do this nearly as often as the jug or spray and more of your derm is in relief from the darn heat!
These cool packs as I say are awesome, like an expensive vest but hundreds cheaper, if you see the ice cooling method by the bottle, imagine this same power without having to continually adjust, and for a much larger area inside your outfit!
I also used this method for packs inside my pants on both sides of my legs on the outside so it's easy to walk and sit and these are tied to a belt used in the freezer with the packs so no need to tie them with each use. One real relief in the heat is this works even inside in hot weather for more relief, you can wear it in real comfort. I wear long sleeved pants over the shorts since the packs otherwise droop a bit and show, and believe it or not this isn't hot in the heat because the ice is well, Christmas!
This works literally for hours in the heat. The physics of the phase change means it takes like thousands of calories at 32 degrees to raise a blend of ice and water one degree. It stays at 32 degrees for hours..you might wonder if it would burn your skin.
If you put it in a nylon shoulder bag (I got mine for 50 cents from the surplus store) this works well for lower 80s outside. Mid 80s and above I remove the bag and the beauty is about the insulation area of somewhat warmer water above 32° on the outside inside the heat! The ice is adding a lot but it won't burn your face. (Caution even so if you have issues about skin sensitivity like blood sugar). To adjust the cool shake or don't shake more.
Using nylon bags with lines over your shoulder is easier to set up and use than zip lock coolers with lines like this I've used. I found while heavier, using two ice bottles one over each side cools enough to be best even if heavier and it costs twice as much to cool but this as just 4 bucks a month. While the vest with ice is somewhat convenient, in the long run it's not as good because once the ice melts in the vest they can overheat.. I got stranded a half an hour out once with the vest overheated and I presume it would have been even hotter if I had removed it. So the ice water jugs get my highest rating and if you try this you'll see why.
When I would go out in the heat it seems like after like a month of it my body sort of went into a sort of constant hibernation mode and when you put the ice jugs between your inner upper arm and your chest on both sides it lets your whole body relax even while you don't have to move it around that much unless it gets really really hot like upper 90's. This might be because there are a lot of thermostats around your body that can cool your whole body down even while not using all over cooling. For example there are patented hand coolers that use implosion to cool the hand and so the football player doesn't have hyperthermia.
Even so I found that the ice water bottles burn my skin so I decided to put polyurethane laminate PUL bags around them. These bags go between the outer nylon bag and the ice jug..PUL is like motorcycle jacket leather or synthetic leather.
These are easy to sew and they're an easy way to make anything waterproof. They use PUL to make waterproof socks and you can get a 3-ft by 5 ft sheet of it on Etsy for about $12.
The advantage of PUL is it's not too cold and yet it stays cold all day on just a bottle or two of ice because you've insulated it without so much of the burn and you can wear it both indoors and out and you can relax while it's not too wet and clammy even in the heat. Remember if it's a panic all you have to do is relax when you walk to the other aisle in the hothouse which will be frosty in the heat and calmly take the jug out of the container!
Finally if you want you can freeze smaller bottles of ice for hand coolers inside your pockets.
I'm researching ice cooled headbands online, Cooldownz Icy Wrap sealed with rubber insulation. The reviews say they are only good for 30 minutes. So it may take more power like the above with 64 ounces of ice or more like as you will see by the ice jug method are awesomer awe Summer!
Packs in the bags like this are also great head coolers when you go to sleep to save on the AC. It costs 3x more to cool a degree than heating it and my power bill was usually highest in later July and August.
Cooling packs of other type I've used like e.g. CMC or others like clay based only cool for an hour..as in above, this is ice and by the physics when you blend ice and water it stays at 32 degrees till all the ice is melted this is the event of other so called phase change materials (PCM) but hundreds cheaper and presumably safer and more for the environment.
I also tried a patented cooling water pillow, these are a sham since they only cool for 30 minutes and then your head heats it like any other pillow. They weighed like 40 lbs and took up all the room in my refrigerator and real tough to drag them in and out both AM and PM and mold might be an issue.
The best way I like to keep it from getting too cool is to use a beautious deep dark winter sweater with geometric patterns and sew the arms underneath and use it for a pillow shield. It's durable, won't stain and cheap and fits the ice method just right and the pillow is also warmer in winter and easy to keep clean if you use a darker sweater with some light fiber shining around.
Ice goes on while the room cools down so it's comfortable to sleep unlike cool packs or relatively worthless evaporative cooling towels. Ice is far ahead of these, more than just soaking a miserable shirt and paying 20$ or 30$!
The best method I found for going to sleep at night is to take my sheet and spray water on it and just sleep under this with the fan on.. lasts for like 4 hours.. enough for the air to cool down and save on the air conditioning. For the hottest nights chill the water jug in the refrigerator an hour ahead if needed.
This works just great with ice for the pillow!
It's also works great with the fan but you dry out the sheet sooner.
You want to make sure to modulate the ice in your ice pillow because it can get too cold and cause your blood vessels of your brain to constrict too much and this might cause harm while you're trying to sleep. It feels good at first but you want to use with caution
Be sure to start with too much insulation and then reduce it to its optimal level so you can stay cool for hours before you go to sleep but without this possible hazard.
For the a.m. hours I use the ice water jug outside and also I take Crocs shoes which have the holes in them you want to get them that are about fourth of an inch too large so the air circulates. Like the rainforest where the rain only goes up a hundred feet and rains back down and so it doesn't dry out.. this can double how much you save!
If you wear these with thin socks and spray water down through the holes from above this works dramatically to keep your feet and you-feeling more aware of why the heat is most people's favorite year round.. What could it be in Novembuary..
The socks work more for you than against you than insulation because they hold lots of moisture provided they're also inside with the cool air circulating inside the shoe and not evaporating out so much. When you walk on the pavement along with the ice water bottle on high.. the hottest days you can also cool these spray water bottles in the insulated ice box that sprays into the shoes and you-in 15 minutes even on a 95° day.
I tried to reduce odor with spraying Dawn dishwashing with it into my socks so my shoes look like they're foaming at the edges.. Wash and dry socks after each use, your sock hasn't disappeared into another cosmos and matches!
For indoors during the daytime as opposed to outdoors in the heat or at night in bed another method is to combine the shoes and spray with a thin polyester shirt that's tightly woven, so the hotter you are, the cooler you are!
By the science here, the moisture that you're retaining as you perspire in the shirt cools it down and it radiates out the heat through the poly because it's so thin so retain lots of cool moisture. It's transparent to the heat and the moisture between the shirt and you multiplies the outflow of the radiation as you heat up. ( "Insulation that's moist feels 5 times cooler and radiates 20 times more heat than dry").
This is far cheaper than air conditioning and I often find air conditioning to be like a sort of Egyptian tomb. It feels good for about 15 minutes and there's no conceiving of eternity till grand opera!
I find the best way to use the cooling polyester shirt is to stay active like indoors by doing something like exercise or cleaning.. by walking around the air blows for more cool and you also perspire more..While it doesn't work outside it works quite well to multiply it up with a usual fan like when you're sitting or lying down.
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The best method for miserable appointments with air conditioning I found sometimes is to simply take a rug with a light jacket that looks good and nobody will realize you're so comfortable in the necessity of your luxury and sew it into your jacket from above the shoulders like with awl twine (halfway between thread and like nylon line this is more agile than shoelaces and much cheaper and yet more durable and doesn't snag or break like thread) although originally I was using shoelaces with holes punched in duct tape to sew it in and this gives you a super heat shield and as long as this is cozy and warm in the air conditioning and if most don't freeze up to heaven in August which is a nice advantage, so be it!
For cooling, the cool stays in by the polyester shirt method and the heat stays out inside at any rate inside; outdoors only the ice water and shoe methods work well since heat levels need much more power to solve outside..the indoors and outdoors use different technology..
Even so this polyester outfit is much better than a miserable evaporative cooling shirt for $100 where first you're miserably wet and cold and then it doesn't even keep you cool, and about two hours, and meltdown.
By using a thin tight weave polyester shirt it might take a half an hour to cool down but it goes on cooling and cooling. You're not drowning and it feels more like a good air conditioner all day especially if you're active since there's not that much moisture even though there's some.
See my other post "how to make your own memory foam coat for $25" and you'll see how to reverse this trick for winter so you're upside down and you're seeing cozy sites with cozy shoes and coat..
As the Chinese would say a cool head and warm feet are of worth good health, and I would always say, right so far so good good about what, am I Chinese yet? Right if I could just reduce the heat of my head enough it would be comfortable enough to sleep and save heat, best of both.
For the cooling shirt as I say you want to stay active and then perhaps stay with the big fan.
Without perspiration you warm up and it's not comfortable. It won't work outside because it's too hot so it gets dry fast. You can't wear it when it's dry at night in your having the layer of polyester between you and the cushion. And better here might be to spray water on the sheet and turn on the box fan and use the cool pop pack for the pillow.. in the daytime however using the herbs like chamomile or cayenne may maximize your comfort of the polyester shirt method indoors because they cause perspiration.
Hot chilis like cayenne have been used by people living in areas of heat for 1000s of years.
You might also want to try a humidifier like you see for sale in big box stores if you'd like.. while I haven't yet gotten to try this, one of my neighbors had one and she swore by hers. My sister said she thinks this might not work because it might have moisture problems like mildew or mold but it's what bees and the ants might like the moist!
The best trick I've seen for head comfort indoors in the AM and afternoon hours, which is a major part of staying cool is to buy headfans on Amazon..not only do these keep you WAY WOW cool but they stop noise in summer CLICK HERE! For the Amazon page to see what I'm talking about..These are just 20 if they raised the cost without their save binge saved.. they go right in your face on both sides.
A bit of advice though... I dropped the fans the first day and they broke.. one of them I must say continue to work while the other stopped once I put them back together they are kind of fragile and they're quite easy to drop because they're large around your head and the other one I had was too narrow so they only just barely fit around my ears and would often seem to fall down without being just so so you want a line around them and make it with the loop that goes around your shoulder so you won't drop them.
For the one over your head take another shoelace and tie it over your head so it won't fall down. Tie both with loops around your shoulder so if you drop them they won't break, while powerful they're often fragile.
I'm buying a lifetime supply 100 years worth! so I may live it up this heat wave!
Unlike a floor fan on the ceiling where you hang outfits in a cyclone these are portable around the house and if you combine them with the long sleeved polyester shirt with ice jugs on the sides and a level fan all around while you relax a while u iz so cul.
The ice jugs work well outside the best of any I've seen, even so the fans aren't up to this level of value outside and they won't really look as good but for indoors these fans are dramatically improved over methods I tried before, like for example the Ipolar which is a power spray mist fan you have to hold the spray the Mist. (I would say making a misted version of the head fans would be a major advantage although you would still have to keep filling them up with water and they might even cause you to have shock or something.. if they could be made safe this would be improved. The ones I bought so if you get them wet they cause electric shock so this may not be easy for them to build yet)
Or other gyps abound like the water fan cooler you wear around your shoulder and the one I bought had no air flow reaching my ears so it was file 13 trash can storage for antique collection use.
Neither are the solar array fan hat coolers that are also worthless for cooling in the heat outside. The people who bought it say it's a sham on Amazon other than just for recreational heat in the shade!
For face first aid and fast relief from the heat you can get high velocity flow cooling air anywhere you want by buying one of those USB charged air cushion inflators that are just about $20 on Amazon.. Of course you can never use these in the rain or get them wet and the motor gets hot in a few minutes but they give a real good feeling of coolness on your face much stronger than the air fans and concentrated before they get hot.
On this Click they talk about making a do-it-yourself Phase Change Material vest using a tactical vest like the military and also the chemicals especially used for PCM you can buy on Amazon and also how to use a vacuum food sealing machine.. one objection to my idea of cool jugs is that they might burn your skin but as I say there's an area of insulation around the outside of the juice jug and you can control your temperature r by just shaking the bottle.
While you might expect to pay at least $50 to $70 for this, $20 for the cheapest tactical vest on Ebay which is bad looking and 30 or 40 at least for the food sealing bags machine and some more for the chemicals I wouldn't think this is a bad idea and I'm going to try it and compare.
While $70 itself doesn't seems to be cheap you get the seal a meal food processor and this might have more general use.
One problem with merely using a vest is that it doesn't cool your arms like my polyester shirt method with the fan, or the ice jug outside. And by using insulation on the ice bottles it makes it so they last all day and so there's no need for more than like 12 hours. A lot of people may like to use the ice bottle to cool their face outdoors and this is also not how the vest might be. Another advantage of my methods is that they are useful for sleep in the evening.. a vest may be good but being rich maybe best if the doctor can't find you among all the cheese munchies!
Another good way to save on AC is to use a fan and buy a motion sensing switch you can get for about 20 online.
To reduce the overheat in seconds in not 30 minutes like cheap (not so cheap) AC just roll over and like your dog you are the dog star and your dog nap resumes!
Thanks for reading this, From Charles!
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