A Green Gandhian Airconditioner
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Gandhi once said that God has provided enough for everyone’s need but not for everyone’s greed. Air conditioning is one area where the powers that be and the new elite have thrown caution to the winds and have gone the whole hog in a hollow display of majesty without substance, making it one of the major contributors to the scourge of “Climate Change” threatening all life on the planet.

The site introduces you to what we believe is a Gandhian way of saving you from heat and cold at the least cost to yourself and the economy. It offers you multiple choices to make a cheap, 90% energy saving, and 100% ‘green’ air conditioner for as little as Rs.4,500. ($90)

The project leads us to the conclusion that air-conditioning and refrigeration experts should take a serious look at Ice and Chilled Water as a room cooling option. Snowbreeze is just the beginning.

Project Funded By Government of India
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A Desk-Top AC

Snowbreeze 4

It can run on water

The Desk-top model of Snowbreeze-4 ushers a new revolution in the domain of ice-based green air-conditioning. Encased in a sleek, shiny, sturdy and small steel can (13”x13”x15”), and carrying twice the weight of copper coils that was fitted in all previous models, it is the most effective cooling and dehumidifying model in the series.

It can give you both, high or moderate cooling, depending upon whether you use ice or chilled water as the coolant. In fact, with additional inputs, this little contraption can be magnified to serve as a substitute for a conventional wall airconditioner in larger rooms.

You can make it yourself today
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Dedication


Dr. T.C. Goel
Professor R.N. Deb

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Snowbreeze Fan Mail

Newspaper reports of Snowbreeze have brought me a flood of nearly 500 letters by email from all over the country. Half of them came during the week the news appeared in Mail Today followed by a PTI story which was published in newspapers all over India and abroad. My website had 192000 hits from 25 countries on a single day.

Feature articles in The Hindu and Statesman, as well as IBN telecasts, Yahoo news and Google search engines brought more mail.

I am reproducing the contents of these letters in a separate section of this website since to me they represent the pulse of the nation. They are indicative of what the Indian middle class intelligentsia expect from the concerned authorities.

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Contact address : saroj_lal@yahoo.com

Blog : www.snowbreezeac.blogspot.com

The Hindu February 25, 2010
     
 
 

Snowbreeze 1

Designed in several shapes and sizes Snowbreeze 1 runs a stream of compressed air for 100 to 150 feet through aluminium grooves fitted in a separate casing around an aluminium drum packed with ice. It keeps the room cooled and dehumidified for about 8 hours when it has to be refilled with ice after draining out condensed water.

Snowbreeze 2 (A unique self-cooling AC)

Snowbreeze-2 is a unique cooling device the like of which has never been invented before. It harnesses the self-cooling energy of water in conjunction with ice, based on the centuries old self-cooling ‘matka’ (pitcher) principle, which sets in motion an automatic convection current in a water body.

Automated Snowbreeze Models

The latest 90% energy saving, 100% green, fully automated models of Snowbreeze designed to match a wall airconditioner. Their chief advantage is that it costs you practically nothing but a mere pressing of a switch to keep your room cool and comfortable during the summer and monsoon seasons, whenever you want it.
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CNN Video Clip Aired on October 11, 2007

See a CNN Video Clip Aired on May 12, 2008
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Details of Automated Models 1, 2 and 3

IMPORTANT UPDATE about Snowbreeze

Read 'Make Your Own Air conditioner-cum-heater'

How to make A mini-snowbreeze

Snowbreeze as a Humidified Room Heater

Snowbreeze-2

Read “The Burfwala Cometh” on Daily Telegraph (London) website

The Statesman article

The Statesman - full article with pictures

Read Hindu article

Indian Express Newsline

“Snowbreeze Air-conditioner” on Google.
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Mini-Snowbreeze
A Boon For the old and Sick

Elderly people with limited means need not die of heat or cold for lack of facilities to cope with the weather and power breakdowns. Invented by an 80-years old man in similar circumstances, Mini-Snowbreeze is a cheap but effective air conditioner which can run on an inverter and keep a small room cool and dehumidified for eight hours with “free” ice from the family fridge (Cost Rs.2,500-$50).
 

Snowbreeze as Room Heater

Converting Snowbreeze-1 into a humidifed, power saving room heater is a simple process. Remove the lid of the ice-drum. Suspend a 300 to 500 watt halogen bulb from a bar resting on its rim, with its frame tilted inward, in the upper half of the drum, filling the lower 40% of it with water and leaving a gap of half to one inch between the water and the bulb-frame. Then switch on the system. Warm air will start blowing into the room within 10 minutes. The warming up period could be reduced to five minutes or less if, to start with, you put pre-heated water in the drum.

Battery Powered Rural Unit

It is a special model suited for rural areas where power is available for just a few hours a day or not at all. It can run for eight hours at a time on a specially designed power unit equipped with an automatically recharging 15-ampere dry battery and a 6” DC fan.