[Cob] zeolite Heard of It?

[David Knowlton]

god be praised! a self cooling keg! should be standard equipment for
all cobbing gatherings!


>From: "Mike Swink" <mswink77 at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Mike Swink <mswink77 at earthlink.net>
>To: <coblist at deatech.com>
>Subject: [Cob] zeolite Heard of It?
>Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 22:18:11 -0500
>
>Hello,
>  If zeolite can be mixed with cob to add benifits to cob homes then this 
>is cob related for sure. But if zeolite is not then I am sorry to waste 
>anyones time.
>
>  Seems zeolite has forty or more diffrent types within the same family.
>
>  I was disappointed that american people fail to understand the benifits 
>compaired to those over seas. One person took the first thing that said 
>zeolite and failed to understand that there were diffrent types of zeolite 
>and all perform diffrent functions.
>
>  zeolites. Some hold heat forever?? or can remove ordors. Like Perlite and 
>the tiny rocks you see in fish tanks. They can be mixed in with cob. But 
>will either be your worst nightmare or best investement. IT seems you have 
>to know which type to use. Some zeolite holds mositure while others do not. 
>Imagine a cob wall that would never dry out. So it is smart to find some 
>one who knows the diffrence.
>
>I looked up cool keg on google[links below]. There is a german site with 
>english version and also a beer dist, in american . Seems in fla you find 
>kegs that when you simply pull TAB off top in thirty minutes it cools the 
>keg in sunlight [100 F goes down to 40 F]. No power source just a play on 
>vacumn and zeolite. There is allready filters for pets cages,and other 
>things. Here is some links to site that may be of interest to learn more. I 
>hope the person who make the paper cob walls will take a look. And if there 
>is any enigneers that can decipher the chemical charts . that would be good 
>also. Some kegs come with lever that you pump a few times and then can be 
>refilled to start the cooling process again.
>
>Shows detail of what is inside of keg wall that causes the cooling.
>http://www.zeo-tech.de/htm/e/e_keg.htm
>
>Brief details of how it works.
>http://www.coolsystem.de/tech/zeolite/index.html
>
>Shows real size of kegs next to people neat.
>http://www.coolsystem.de/pictures_vids/index.html
>
>The Ice-Quick is a small device to demonstrate the adsorption technology
>with the sorption pair water/zeolite. It consists of a zeolite filled
>cartridge, connected via an adaptor to a plastic cup, which contains some
>water, and which is evacuated by means of a hand-vacuum pump.
>http://www.zeo-tech.de/htm/e/e_demog1.htm
>
>  The solar-powered refrigerator consists of a cooler box with a built-in
>evaporator and uses water as the cooling agent. In addition to this, all
>that is needed is a manually operated vacuum pump and one or more canisters
>containing the non-toxic mineral zeolite (a naturally occurring mineral) 
>and
>an SK 14 parabolic dish.
>http://www.eg-solar.de/english/solar_cooling.htm
>
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