On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:39:19 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

wrote:
Thought you might be interested in this take on the Cool Surge
portable air cooler.

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/hom...chtronics.html


I have a larger industrial unit that I bought
from WW Grainger years ago and it works as it
was meant to. Evaporative coolers work great
for homes in places where the humidity is low.
In areas that are desert like, the coolers are
wonderful. The things aren't worth a damn around
here in the Southeast for cooling a home.

TDD

And they need alot of wet pad area to give the air a chance to
actually cool down from the evaporation. Most of the little coolers
simply don't have enough pad area to do much of anything.