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Last Tuesday he altered his schedule by cleaning out his pond, "Lake Lucky...
...summer has progressed, the mound of ice has begun to melt slowly, sending ice water trickling down through the granules to the bottom of the pond...
...summer, most of the ice in the pond will have melted, but the temperature of the constantly recirculating water in the system will remain at little more than 32° F, or that of true ice water. Meanwhile, the building is staying at a comfortable 70° F. Of course, the ice ponds could only be used for buildings with a large amount of empty land near by. It would take about 100 tons of ice, or enough to fill a 20-sq.-ft. hole 10 ft. deep, to cool the average American home from spring to autumn...
Though Taylor's test pond has not yet completed its first full summer of operation, Prudential Insurance is already planning its own ice pond, to cool a building now being built by the firm on land adjoining the Princeton campus. Engineers estimate that the company will save as much as $10,000 to $15,000 in annual electrical costs by using ice-pond cooling instead of standard air conditioning...
...profits are indeed substantial and have created a kind of gold-rush atmosphere in Ecuador. An investment of $1,200 to $2,000 per acre of shrimp pond could be returned in just six months. Says Joe Fischer, an aquaculture expert brought in from Hawaii by Shayne: "People are racing to get ponds dug, even when they have no idea what they are doing...