Crosley Ammonia Icyball

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(This is a high-risk activity. High pressures are involved. The Icyball can leak or explode resulting in death or serious injury. Exposure to ammonia can cause serious injury or death. We share these words and photos for information only. We make no claim as to their accuracy usefulness, or safety.)

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CROSLEY ICY BALL 1928-1938
Crosley Icyball
Homemade Icyball
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Fun stuff – Ammonia (100% – not wimpy 3% grocery store stuff), High pressure, Brittle Steel Vessels – all the stuff the Safety Third committee loves. If you do it wrong, you get a entry here:
MMWR or here Darwin Awards

Liquid ammonia was used as the fuel of the rocket airplane, the X-15. Although not as powerful as other fuels, it left no soot in the reusable rocket engine, and has about the same density as the oxidizer, liquid oxygen, which simplified the aircraft’s keeping the same center of gravity in flight. Anhydrous ammonia is a practical clean (CO2-free) and renewable fuel which can be and has been used to replace fossil fuel in powering internal combustion engines.

Links to Solar Cooling Information

http://www.energy-concepts.com/isaac.html
http://www.sustainablevillage.com/servlet/display/product/detail/29150/
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/still_seeking_t.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia General information about ammonia: scary stuff!

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