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Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by grimmdude on Friday May 23, 2014 @11:25AM (#7789730)
That's pretty awesome. I wonder how well it works in the summer.
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by mmoche on Friday May 23, 2014 @11:52AM (#7789856)
Depending on location, ground temperature tends to stabilize once you get a few feet down. Here in the northeast United States, it's about 60 F year-round once you get 15 feet below the surface.

I worked for a company that was making direct-exchange geothermal heat pumps for homes - think about a big refrigerator whose coils are buried in the soil.

Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by Brashman on Friday May 23, 2014 @12:08PM (#7789934)
15 feet sounds pretty deep to dig to install something like this. Any idea what the temperature is like 2-4 feet?
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by TallGuyShort on Friday May 23, 2014 @12:12PM (#7789951)
That's going to vary a lot more by location, and 2-4 feet puts you at much higher risk for your beers freezing (although if you fully load this with beer, you'll have some beers at 2-4 feet anyway). Where I live, for instance, beers will probably freeze 2 feet below ground in winter. But my well is down below 15 feet and is always liquid.
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by zokier on Friday May 23, 2014 @02:21PM (#7790600)
I don't think this is supposed to be used at winter, and during summers I don't think most people need to worry about beers freezing.
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by jnsaff2 on Monday May 26, 2014 @03:28AM (#7799014)
Here in Estonia (very close to Nordics) we put water pipes underground at least 80 cm to PREVENT them from freezing during the winter.
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by mlkmt on Friday May 23, 2014 @12:30PM (#7790027)
It'd be good if this worked in warmer places like Australia, where you actually want to drink beer.
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by dlsym on Friday May 23, 2014 @11:59AM (#7789888)
(About 15,5 °C)
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by xexers on Friday May 23, 2014 @12:12PM (#7789950)
Is that cold enough? My fridge normally about 1-4 degrees Celsius.
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by aestra on Friday May 23, 2014 @12:31PM (#7790029)
Depends on the beer.
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by cmarschner on Friday May 23, 2014 @01:17PM (#7790258)
Makes for a great lukewarm british ale :)
Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by eskil on Friday May 23, 2014 @11:27AM (#7789741)
Obligatory joke about danish summers goes here.