{"id":6685,"date":"2016-06-11T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2016-06-11T11:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T10:47:14","slug":"bangladeshi-made-the-worlds-first-ever-zero-electricity-air-conditioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bangladeshi-made-the-worlds-first-ever-zero-electricity-air-conditioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi Made the world&#8217;s first-ever &#8216;zero electricity&#8217; air conditioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6686\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eco-cooler.jpg\" alt=\"eco cooler\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" \/>A Bangladeshi inventor has made a simple yet effective cooler to help poor residents of his country cope with skyrocketing temperatures during summer without any electricity. His tools? Used plastic bottles.<br \/>\nAshis Paul&#8217;s eco-cooler is a zero-electricity air conditioner that uses repurposed plastic bottles to draw cool air into tin huts, in the absence of electricity. It became a low-cost and environment-friendly solution for Bangladesh&#8217;s poor citizens, a majority of whom live in corrugated tin huts, which can get unbearably hot during summer, when temperatures rise up to 45 degree Celsius.<br \/>\nThe cooler is designed by cutting plastic bottles in half, and then placing them in a grid on a board. This is then placed on the wall like a window frame. It works on the principle that the bottle&#8217;s neck can compress the hot breeze and cool it down, dropping temperatures inside the house by as much as five degrees.<br \/>\nThe project is a collaborative effort between Bangladesh&#8217;s Grey Group and Grameen intel Social Business Ltd., whose volunteers teach residents how to make the eco-coolers with discarded plastic bottles. They have also put up an instruction manual on their website. So far, the coolers have been installed in over 25,000 homes across the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bangladeshi-made-the-worlds-first-ever-zero-electricity-air-conditioner\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladeshi inventor has made a simple yet effective cooler to help poor residents of his country cope with skyrocketing temperatures during summer without any electricity. His tools? Used plastic bottles. 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