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Andrea
We are thinking of a new business to run on a lake. We would like to start up an ice cream boat business. We are currently brainstorming on how we would power a chest ice cream freezer on the pontoon boat. What kind of options would we have? My husband thinks it would be pretty cool to run it off water power. We could construct a waterwheel with an alternator and an inverter to run the sound system and power the chest freezer when we are driving the boat around. When we stop the batteries for the sound system would take over and the chest freezer would be fine for a while without power. Any ideas?
Answer
Here is an idea from the past:
A very well insulated ice box using "dry ice" will get you started on the cheap - it will keep your ice cream frozen hard as a brick for 24 hours (if you have a good insulated ice box). Some people in fact buy broken chest freezers for storing frozen goods with dry ice. This (dry ice) by the way, is how the old original ice cream trucks kept their ice cream frozen, and it is still used today by shippers of perishable goods.
This could be an excellant temporary way to test your idea - as it will be a much cheaper/easier method over an electric freezer and genset combo - so, it will give you a chance to see if your idea 'will fly' (or should I say 'float'). . .
Check out the information on using dry ice:
http://www.dryiceinfo.com/
PS. . . There is a jealous idiot that will give me a thumbs down for this answer - he always does, no matter how good or bad my answer is.
Here is an idea from the past:
A very well insulated ice box using "dry ice" will get you started on the cheap - it will keep your ice cream frozen hard as a brick for 24 hours (if you have a good insulated ice box). Some people in fact buy broken chest freezers for storing frozen goods with dry ice. This (dry ice) by the way, is how the old original ice cream trucks kept their ice cream frozen, and it is still used today by shippers of perishable goods.
This could be an excellant temporary way to test your idea - as it will be a much cheaper/easier method over an electric freezer and genset combo - so, it will give you a chance to see if your idea 'will fly' (or should I say 'float'). . .
Check out the information on using dry ice:
http://www.dryiceinfo.com/
PS. . . There is a jealous idiot that will give me a thumbs down for this answer - he always does, no matter how good or bad my answer is.
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