We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you find yourself experiencing an unexpected heatwave and your air conditioner goes down, keeping cool can be difficult. While nothing beats the ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And given these are desperate, heat-stricken times, let us introduce Mike Hosking's DIY swamp cooler - made out of items you'll (possibly) have around your ...

It’s a scorching 95 degrees in northern Minnesota, and I’m testing my DIY skills by building a homemade swamp cooler in a Walmart parking lot to see if it can actually cool down my camper. Between ...

How you can make a simple 'air conditioner' for $30 Oregonian Daves Killen and Cansler endeavor to make a $30 DIY air conditioner with mixed results. If you try this at home, be sure to remove the ice ...

From New York to Nebraska and all points north, south, east, and west, the United States is in the midst of another year of record heat. Yes, another: 15 of the warmest years on record globally have ...

Simple air conditioners are really nothing more than a heat exchanger that move heat—or cold—from one place to another. Usually, they take warm air and move it across ice or chilled water where it ...