Some of the writers on LabOnTheCheap have recently moved to UC Santa Barbara, where the Chemistry department sells us dry ice like this: That’s right, as 10 lb blocks. There aren’t any of those dry ice grinders, or any tools of any sort, around, so to get dry ice in a reasonable size, you’ve gotta […]
Tag: Dry Ice
Technical Tuesday: Costs of Cooling
It’s Technical Tuesday! This is a rough one, and we hope people will reach out to us and give us additional advice which we will include here. Today we are talking about the costs involved in keeping things cold, and how to mitigate them. We’ll start with the not very cold, and get colder. But […]