Air Conditioner in a Can from Japan
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 05. 2.07
We often write about how good they are in Japan about recycling and transit and saving energy, but they also are brilliant at making wonderful products like this (thank you Google for the wonderful translation: "Every clothes it cools! New conception! It just sprays from on the clothes instant cooling!"
It evidently is a mix of ethanol, a silicon surface agent and freon gas in an aerosol can. Of course the bacodo (salaryman) could just take off the jacket, I thought they were allowed to do that now. ::Strapya.com via ::Sci Fi Tech
I do hope that "wonderful products" line was sarcasm.
Let's all spray freon all over whenever it gets hot (yes, this is sarcasm).
I think it was sarcasm, hence the "untreehugger" tag. What a weird idea. I wonder how long the effect lasts?
Yea, it can keep you cool but can it attract women like the Tag body spray?
You could always put a lighter in front of the can for instant hot?
The product is freon-free and the "bacodo" refers to "bar code hairstyle" which is typical of a sweaty, balding type of salaryman.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1372992
Because of energy conservation measures set out by the government have put recommended summer aircon temps at 82 degrees fahrenheit, it can get kind of sweaty.
Here's the product's webpage, along with the requisite commercial with girls in skimpy bikinis (including little biographies).
http://www.keitaiaircon.com/
Just think of the materials it takes to make this meaningless product and the waste it produces. Want better ways to cool off? Cold water, less clothes or simply naked, or fasting (lack of calories lower the body temperature.)
If it's depending on evaporative cooling (ie. the ethanol in it), it won't last long... (comment directed to hipjazz)
So this is essentially atomized alcohol, cooled by the state-change of the propellant in the can.
So a flammable hydrocarbon is getting pumped into the air around the user and sprayed onto their clothes. Don't a lot of Japanese men still (chain) smoke? What could possibly go wrong?
How many cubic meters of CO2 does a burning salariman produce?
This yet another example of people relying on a wasteful, technological solution when a simple, social solution (stop wearing suits on hot days) would get the job done better.
Just think of the materials it takes to make this meaningless product and the waste it produces. Want better ways to cool off? Cold water, less clothes or simply naked, or fasting (lack of calories lower the body temperature.)
That sounds very practical. Workers in Japan should all just go to work wet and naked and give up food for the summer. Of course, there's no waste involved in providing the power for massive amounts of air conditioning. But that can! How wasteful!
At first I thought you really were saying you liked this hilarious, god-awful can of UV cancer.
I really need to chill out ...
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