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[–] 6 points 7 hours ago

Heating is just a warm jumper. Energy sounds more like a gimmick on it's own but cooling, now that is interesting.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

    Cool rooms are as important as cool people! Stop underestimating them, I warm you!

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

    Have wondered about water cooling my sofa but not sure how easily to get tubes you can lay on and pump water through and be comfortable to lay on. Cooling the water is fairly easy, ice cubes short term and heat pump aquarium chiller if you want it to run for a long time is probably the most reasonably sized/priced option.

    Modifying an old fridge or freezer could also work if you drill a hole through it to have a bucket inside cooling down and pump water from that.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Having a big hand-made tank of water in the house is overall a bad idea. Having a thermo-accumulator in a region where the idea of water-cooled sofa doesn't sound too crazy is even worse idea.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago

    You can buy buckets for very little. Why is it a bad/worse idea?

    The water container obviously depends on how you are cooling it, if its in a fridge then it needs to fit but if using an external chiller you could use pretty much anything.

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