No Power "Fridge" 🚫⚡️

Crafted by a potter named M Sivasamy, this clay pot was designed to help keep produce cool for days.

He made a cylindrical pot made out of clay with a tap on one side and an outlet to pour water on the other side. A smaller pot fits inside the bigger one where you can place your vegetables which is then covered with a lid. The technology is simple — the water in the pot remains cool keeping the vegetables fresh and cool. - BetterIndia

For places with no or limited electricity, this could help immensely. Especially considering terracotta(earthenware) clay is almost used worldwide.

More Info:

https://youtu.be/Pr-FxgNTXtA

load all comments

dbx12 12 points 2 years ago

So they discovered cooling by evaporation?

save

path: 0 11288549, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 7

Varyk 9 points 2 years ago

Not just evaporation, this is indirect heat transfer without electricity. Simple, cheap, foolproof, renewable.

Little pot containing fresh vegetables inside the big pot, pour cold water inside the big pot, after a day or two, you can pour the warmer water out and put new cold water in.

Insulation of the clay keeps the water cold, hence the vegetables cold, and all you need is any source of cool water.

It's a really good idea in an energy deprived environment.

save

path: 0 11288549 11288886, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 5

PiousAgnostic 13 points 2 years ago

This is evaprotive cooling tech. These things have existed for 1000s of years. They are called zeer pots.

The water evaporates through the outter clay pot and the latent heat of vaporization causes the water to cool drastically. Same exact principle as an air-conditioning unit, but it's not a closed system, so you have to add more water. And waters energy from vaporization isn't as good as a refrigerant. And it'll only work well in a dry environment.

save

path: 0 11288549 11288886 11291981, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 2

MysteriousSophon21 0 points a year ago

Yep, these are brilliant for dry climates, but for humid areas you'd need something else or a small power station (check out gearscouts.com if you need one that's actaully efficient with LFP batteries).

save

path: 0 11288549 11288886 11291981 17754886, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 0

Varyk 0 points 2 years ago

Close to a zeer pot in construction but with modifications, like the functional difference between a broom and a mop.

Those are the conditions a zeer pot is meant to work in, although this fridge's indirect cooling and lid rather than the pure evaporation of a zeer pot makes his invention useful in all climates rather than only dry conditions.

As for not being a closed system, that is the point of this invention: to have a simply refilled, working refrigerator with zero energy.

save

path: 0 11288549 11288886 11291981 11295689, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 0