Liquid mass fridge/night cooler experiment
Inspired by the night cooler design by Mike Reynolds of Earthship fame I decided to build a cold storage box that doesn't rely on electricity. The original design uses full beer cans for liquid mass plus reinforced concrete to contain the cold once captured. I decided to try and use as many recycled materials as possible in my modified Kimberly safe and it wasn't long before the bulk of the materials came to me by way of various jobs! Being a Handyman certainly helps when it comes to sourcing things to reuse and the first thing I did was look in my workshop for something which might serve as the framework for the walls and floor of the fridge. marine ply with membrane paint I found some off cuts of marine ply left over from a possum nesting box project I did a couple of years ago so I painted them with bitumen paint and put these aside and drew up some plans of what else I might need. A week after deciding to make my cold box I was asked to clea...