Morning readers. Thanks for coming by for a read this morning.
Some of you made some good, helpful comments about the last post, and although that bus might never come into my life, my mind’s insisting on playing with the associated problems.
Insofar as the matter of cooling for summer driving, I’m thinking ram-air venturi. A hole cut at the question-mark, flange installed with a megaphone-like air-catcher-compressor expanding inside the bus. Water misted from a pressurized pump-up insecticide sprayer as the air expands as it’s released inside the bus. Rear windows open to pull the cooler air backward through the length of the bus.
I’m thinking for cooling the bus as a dwelling, a thermal syphon arrangement pulling air from the shaded area under the bus, releasing it along the floor, the hole for the venturi open and the windows cracked at the top to pull the cooler air upward from the floor.
Maybe some sort of misting device inside the bus, also.
I use those pump-up insecticide sprayers anyway for showering now, today, and that one would serve that use when the bus is parked as living quarters. I’d cap the hole with a PVC cap when the venturi wasn’t in use, weather was cold, or it was raining.
As for heating it winters, I’ve got a number of ideas, some as strange and unlikely as these. But the cats and I are used to living cold and hard. What’s bare minimum for us isn’t likely to be much warmer than our ancestors spent their lives living with, uncomplaining.
For cooking meals while driving down the highway I’ll install one of those enclosed propane grilles to sit atop the engine, use waste-heat from the engine to do the cooking, pull it out when I’m ready, slow-cooker-like. There’s plenty of room under the hood for a cooker capable of handling a banquet.
There’s an old propane refrigerator from a camper I gave Gale 30-40 years ago stored up there I posted a picture of here on an earlier entry, which I’d install. Those AC shelves will work well, I thinks, as a means of running water lines, gas lines, and electrical wiring. Out of sight, out of the way, but accessible.
A couple of propane burners on a platform and a Coleman stove oven might be the solution for somewhere to prepare food while camped if I don’t cook outdoors.
I’m thinking LED lighting, assuming I can find it at the right price.
Those pump-up insecticide sprayers are surprisingly useful for all manner of unlikely purposes. Good for washing dishes, rinsing dishes, showering, all in a severely water-saving mode. Heat the water, fill one with soapy water, another with clear water, you’re in business.
Thanks for your interest and comments.
Gracias, Jules
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