Honeywell Fan

Honeywell is a very large company producing items ranging from consumer electrical devices through to engineering and aerospace systems. It is one of the oldest companies in the World being incorporated in 1906.

Some of the best known Honeywell products are their household electrical and auto items. In particular Honeywell fans have become very popular in recent years, with a large product range that is well regarded in the industry.

Honeywell make a large range of fans and air circulators which cover a range of uses and price brackets. From simple table-top fans such as the Honeywell HT-904C Tabletop Air-Circulator Fan which can be found from as little as $16 through to $260 for a Honeywell Oscillating Tower Air Purifier With Permanent IFD Filter 186 Sq Ft Room Capacity. Honeywell Fresh Breeze Tower Fan with Remote Control at $85 increasingly more popular with buyers.

Air Condition in Canada

In Canada, home air conditioning is less common than in East Asia and the United States, but it still quite prevalent. This is especially true of the Great Lakes regions of southern Ontario and Quebec, where there are especially high humidity levels. While window and split units are common in these regions, central air systems are the most widespread in Western Canada. Most Western Canadian homes are built with already-compatible central forced air natural gas heating systems, making installing a central air system very simple. In Central Canada separate room-based hydro powered heating is more common, leading to the higher cost of retrofitting a central air system. The majority of modern urban high-rise condominiums built in Canadian cities have air conditioning systems. It is also offered as a relatively low-cost option on most new built homes. While energy is comparatively very cheap in Canada, the large size of the average Canadian home and cold winters make heating and cooling one of the largest household expenses. Canadian summers are uncomfortably hot, but rarely reach the dangerous temperatures experienced in the United States or Asia. As such, many Canadians, especially in older homes, simply choose to forgo air conditioning in lieu of simple fans and evaporative coolers. Cost of operation (as a factor of efficiency) of air conditioning is often considered an environmentally unfriendly mitigation to poor thermal design. There have been a number of advances in more environmentally friendly technologies, including insulation advancement, geothermal cooling, and the Enwave deep lake system in Toronto that cools a number of office towers using cold water from Lake Ontario.

How much ice would I have to store up in the winter in order to air condition my house all summer?

How much ice would I have to store up in the winter in order to air condition my house all summer?

This is a great question... there's a lot to love about free air conditioning!

It certainly would be an easy system to build. All you need is a big insulated container (probably in the form of a hole in the ground) with some coiled tubes at the bottom. You would run a chilled water circuit from the container to a radiator inside the air conditioner. You would need a small pump to pump the water in the chilled water loop, but that's it.

So let's make a couple of assumptions:

• Let's assume that your air conditioner runs for 12 hours a day for three months out of the year.
• Let's assume that your house has a 5-ton air conditioner (60,000 BTU -- British thermal units).
• Let's assume that we can store the snow and ice with 50 percent efficiency. That is, over the course of the summer we will lose half of it to melting, inefficiencies in our system, etc.

To cool the house, you therefore need:

60,000 BTU/hr * 12 hours/day * 90 days = 64,800,000 BTU

Multiplying by our 50 percent efficiency rating, let's call it 130 million BTU.

If you have a gram of ice at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), it will absorb 80 calories of energy converting from ice to liquid water. There are 252 calories in a BTU. So we need 3.15 grams of water to absorb 1 BTU of heat. The assumption here is that we are going to rely on the phase change from ice to water to power the air conditioner. Once all the ice melts, the water will warm up quickly.

So we need:

130,000,000 BTU * 3.15 grams/BTU = 409,500,000 grams of ice

That's about 410,000 liters of ice, or 410,000 kilograms (902,000 pounds) of ice that you must store to cool your house all summer. That's a cube measuring 740 centimeters (24.26 feet) on a side. Very roughly speaking, you would have to dig a hole as big as your house and insulate it well, and then in the winter you would have to shovel it full of nearly a million pounds of ice. But if you do that, you can cool your house for free! (The value of the equivalent electricity to cool the house, at 7.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, would be about $1,500.)

My new a/c will kick Summer 2010's ass

Out of box


It fits!


My room looks cool

Model: Frigidaire FRA124HT2 12-000 Btu Thru-the-wall Ac with Temp Remote