Very few days left for hot summer arrival. So are you ready to beat the heat. Generally middle class people uses air conditioner or air cooler to escape from the heat but now you have 3rd option also named green air conditioner or snowbreeze.

Delhi based M.B Lal Lal who is 81 years old  is working on machine from 4 years.  He has invented a cheap ac whose cost is similar to cooler so enjoy the air conditioner at the cost of cooler. Journalist M. B Lal converted a cooler into a efficient air conditioner which will reduce the average room temperature by 7 degrees than cooler. Lal said that  green ac has 3 elements which made it differ from cooler. Those products are a 100- foot copper wire, a water pump & a metal sheet.

What about electricity consumption and price of green ac?

Do not worry about the price and electricity bill as this gree air conditioner uses the same amount of electricity  as cooler and and its buying price will be between Rs 5000 to Rs 7000.

He further added that in the hot days of June, 2007, the idea of making such machine click in his mind, & from that moment only he started working on this project.He said that once he asked his wife to bring a glass of water but she brought a plate of ice.

After that he felt that the temperature cools down when air passes by a cool object.

He explained the way by which he made the machine. He added that once he took a wooden box & twisted many spiral wholes in it, & then inserted metal foils & filled the whole box with ice cubes. Lateron used a small fan to see the force of air& he noticed that as the air forced out of it, the air becomes much cooler than before.

Such demo helps him to create such a model.

Lal even got the help of a lakh rupee from the Union ministry of science and technology in March, 2009.

Lal’s machine is liked by many people. His own neighbors are seen using the modal, & moreover some foreigners who lives in Delhi, is also hiring Snowbreeze (green ac).

So good news for all middle class families who can easily purchased it because of its low price  & it uses only chilled water to get the cool breeze.

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Green AC that’s cheap as a cooler
Mausam Sharma
New Delhi, March 5, 2010
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While many Delhiites are already spending thousands of rupees to repair old air conditioners or even more to buy new ones, M. B. Lal prefers a cheap solution and a green one in that.

Harnessing ice as a cooling agent, the retired journalist converted his humble desert cooler into a rudimentary yet effective air conditioner.

Though the unique machine decreases the average room temperature by as much as seven degrees more than a cooler, it consumes the same electricity and costs between just Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000.

Lal, who has been working on the machine for four years, says the main advantage of ‘ Snowbreeze’, as he christened it, is its non-polluting nature, unlike normal ACs.

“The machine has only three elements that transform it from a cooler to an AC: a metal sheet, a 100- foot copper wire and a water pump,”the 81- year old Lal makes it sound deceptively simple.

The seed of the idea germinated in a blazing June afternoon in 2007. A long power outage made Lal feel unwell and thirsty.

He wanted some water and instead his wife brought a huge plate full of ice. “The temperature in the vicinity dipped palpably,”Lal recalls.

It rang a bell and he understood that when air is passed through any chilled object, it gradually cools down.

That was when he thought of harnessing ice as a cooling agent. He called up Hasan, his trusted mechanic, and asked him to work on a model of Snowbreeze.

” We took a wooden box and created spiral grooves in it. We put metal foils in them and installed a box full of ice. With the help a small but powerful fan, air was forced to move around the cold metal box along the spiral grooves.

By the time the air was forced out of the machine, it was much colder than what comes out of a normal cooler,”Lal says.

Last March, the Union ministry of science and technology had provided Lal assistance of over Rs 1 lakh to promote his project.

The publicity clicked: many of Lal’s neighbours at Saket’s Press Enclave opted for the machine.

Even some foreigners living in Delhi have been using Snowbreeze for the past three years.

The basic model of the supercooler gradually evolved into what is now a machine four times more powerful than the initial prototype.

According to Lal, any middle class family can afford it easily. Just seven to eight kilograms of ice – an average refrigerator can freeze the amount in a day – and a little chilled water is enough to make Snowbreeze run throughout a hot night.

“If you want to use it for a longer period, please contact an ice vendor. The

ice can be stored in insulated boxes,”Lal says.

Interestingly, he has decided never to take a patent on his machine so that anyone can make its prototype anywhere in the world. ” It can be a boon to hospitals, guesthouses and dormitories,”he suggests.

Lal has an website – www. greenairconditioner.org – on which you can place an order. Hasan is sure to knock at your door in a day.

Thanks to Lal who gives us this precious gift in the time of price rise !