{"id":3214,"date":"2016-06-01T17:50:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:59:01","slug":"zero-electricity-air-cooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2016\/06\/zero-electricity-air-cooler.html","title":{"rendered":"Zero Electricity Air Cooler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eco-Cooler-airco-without-electricity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eco-Cooler-airco-without-electricity-500x313.jpg\" alt=\"Eco-Cooler airco without electricity\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eco-Cooler-airco-without-electricity-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eco-Cooler-airco-without-electricity.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over 70% of Bangladesh&#8217;s population live in corrugated tin huts across the countryside. During the long summer months, temperatures reach up to 45\u00b0 Celsius, making these huts unbearable to live in.<\/p>\n<p>To address the issue, Grey Dhaka teamed up with volunteers from Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd to create the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eco-cooler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eco-Cooler<\/a> &#8211; a zero electricity air cooler, which uses re-purposed plastic bottles cut in half and put into a grid, in accordance to available window sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Based on wind direction and airflow pressure, the Eco-Cooler has succeeded in decreasing the temperature in tin huts by up to 5\u00b0 Celsius. After initial tests, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.bigweb.com.bd\/eco-cooler\/Eco-Cooler.HowToMake.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">blueprints<\/a> of the Eco-Cooler were put up online for everyone to download for free.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Adriana Parra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70% of Bangladesh&#8217;s population live in corrugated tin huts across the countryside. During the long summer months, temperatures reach up to 45\u00b0 Celsius, making these huts unbearable to live in. To address the issue, Grey Dhaka teamed up with volunteers from Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd to create the Eco-Cooler &#8211; a zero electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,74,12,315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}