Willie replied:

Matthew,

You are changing the design rules to get the best answer possible to suit whatever you are trying to prove.

You are playing silly games, young fella

Willie

Never a dull moment

Member - Bradley replied:

matty , i have not read the previous post, but i can tell you that one of the major uni's in Melb years ago were developing a product that was an esky with a solar panel built into the lid, Haven't heard anything since so i can only guess that the concept wasn't viable - durability / power consumption / efficiency ETC. But there is probably a patent covering this concept already ! BradLife is short- but there's always time for a yarda.

phil replied:

If you could make something like that it would probably violate the laws of physics!
There is simply not enough energy available from a small solar panel.
If the technology was possible it would be already in use by the portable fridge makers.
Phil

Michelle from ExplorOz replied:

Hi Matthew,
I'm pleased that you've had lots of responses from our Forum and wonder if you might do something of benefit to us please. Could you please inform the Tourism Faculty (or whatever its called) at Sydney Uni about our website?

If a university was to do an independent report on our market penetration then I'm sure that we'd get the "official" recognition that we still can't seem to crack in this industry. We have 5 times the readership of magazines in this industry, blow away their websites stats by about 10 times and have far more information that is non-baised to which the public have free access.

What we need is for more businesses in the industry to allocate serious $ from their advertising campaigns to a campaign on ExplorOz.com It was always purpose-built to be the central repository for this industry and advertising campaigns have been structured into the original site development to be seamlessly merged with site content to provide a really useful resource to travellers and as an industry portal.

Please pass this onto the right person...ExplorOz

Rod replied:

Matthew

Your product already exists. See:

http://www.portable-engel-chescold-more.com.au/products/pweb_products_solar2.htm

Your prices seem about half the 'real-world' prices when you consider the costs referred to in the above link do not include the fridge.

I appreciate you are doing a 'marketing' excercise but any marketing not based on a soundly engineered solution is surely a pipedream ?

Good luck

JohnH replied:

Matthew I don't think you are getting through to some of these folks. If it could be done then they would all answer yes because it would save each and every one of us hundreds of dollars on accessories and give us greater flexibility. The trouble is that it is a hypothetical question and it may require too much imagination. Imagine if you could bottle a fart and then convert it to energy to run your 4WD.... Get my drift. Hey maybe I'm onto something here... Folks please don'e shoot me down it;s just my dry sense of humour.

Member - Stephen (Broken Hill) replied:

Evaporative coolers don't cool much. You also have to feed them water. May or may not be appropriate to 4WDing. Depends on what you are trying to cool and where.

Apologies in advance for the negative sounding comments.Simpson in September.......