Hey fellas, Coleman's already done the drinking for you!

http://www.amazon.com/Coleman-5-Gallon-PVC-Camp-Shower/dp/B0009PUT20

Its also lightweight and unbreakable, so you can concentrate on what's in
the cooler.......... :)

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Tom Buese <tombuese@comcast.net> wrote:

> On May 14, 2008, at 10:11 PM, Mike Elliott wrote:
>
>  Not related to Vanagons except in the "useful for camping" sense...
>>
>> "A Chinese peasant has made a solar water heater - using only beers
>> bottles and hoses."
>>
>> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2850151.html
>>
>> It's very nearly the most perfect invention ever in so many ways. A
>> cheap source of solar-heater water for showering, and the inventor
>> "...
>> will build a public bathroom for the village using his invention
>> when he
>> has the money to buy enough beers." What makes it so nearly perfect is
>> that any money you spend on beers can be expensed as cost of goods
>> sold,
>> and the "manufacturing process" needed to convert beers into empty
>> bottles involves drinking those beers.
>>
>> Maybe there's a way to make a Westy version. Hey Buese? You want to
>> help
>> develop this into a product? You figure out from the photo how the rig
>> works. I'll start "making" beer bottles right away.
>>
>
> I will continue to work on the beer bottles, but might have to start
> drinking, I mean making, brown bottles for the design, but until I
> have the BZ shelves out the door, NO NEW PROJECTS!
>
> I like a lot of the other ideas suggested & will steal those ideas as
> appropriate once the time is ready.  I am designing some projects w/
> solar water heat, PV panels & GSHP(Ground Source Heat Pumps)
> presently, but of course I rely on my mechanical engineers to figure
> out the hard stuff.
>
>
> YMMV,
>
> Mr. BZ
>
>
>
>>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
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