An earth-cooled beer dispenser

Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by Crito on Friday May 23, 2014 @12:43PM (#7790094)

I imagine it would be most useful for people who camp without electricity often. However dry ice is very cheap (like $1/lb cheap) and more convenient (you don't have to dig a hole) so unless you are camping very often or camp for very long periods of time, it would probably take a very long time to break even.

It is a pretty cool idea though, that alone could justify part of the price for some people.

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Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by knodi123 on Friday May 23, 2014 @04:04PM (#7791051)

campers? So dig a whole new borehole each time you want to use this? I've never dug a mini-mineshaft before, but isn't that prohibitive amounts of effort ?

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Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser by Crito on Friday May 23, 2014 @05:39PM (#7791489)

It doesn't seem like it would be too bad. If they are in the same spot for two weeks or so then I think it might be worth it. For a week or less then a traditional cooler with dry ice seems like it would be clearly better.

The type of soil (rocky or not) would make a big difference. Though icy ground where this would work best would be the hardest to dig...

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