Abe B. Cline, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

Page 133

HI 5-10- 3 AB line sl:l the_ arne into m_> th r ,one Sunday. Made a date with m . And I bought an e aporated conditioner toput on the floor, I i n 't kn an~ mroe about--thecnly thinkg I knew abut evao rated air conditioners was when we were kids, we used to go camping and the ~uff that we wanted to keep co l, ~e'd put in a flour sack and wet the flour sack andhung up on a tree so the animals couldn 't get it . And we kept the sack wet. And what you were doing ther ewas getting air condioning becuase as theat water was evaporating, it was cooling the contents of the sack. But other than that, ~idn't know anything about air conditioning, but I learned . .L. So does the evaporated air conditioning method operate the same way . bscially, it cools thehouse by evaporating water. AC Yes . That is - as it evaporates air, the evaporation of the air cools the water and then you run the air over this cool water to get evaporation. Ah, the thing is some people don't understand is that there is very little differencebetween evaporated cooling and refrigeration cooling. The~in difference is that the refrigeration people an get their temperature down, but acutally the process is the same. In other words, end side one begin side two Nevertheless this isactualy what happens is the - they use a gas that boils at a low poit, evaporates a t a low point, low :!::~ tempeature. BUt gas is expensive so that you have tD use it over and over again andyou evaporate it, and ~get the cooling from it