Eco India: How the pattern of a beehive inspired the design for an affordable, natural air cooler

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week looks at an elegant and energy-efficient cooling system that uses cylindrical terracotta cones, arranged in a beehive pattern, over which water is allowed to flow. Could this technology potentially replace electric refrigerant-based AC units? ********** CREDITS: Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla Director of Photography: Siddharth Subramanian Second Camera: Amit Bose Video Editor: Sujit Lad Script & Field Producer: Juhi Chaudhary Associate Producer: Shibika Suresh Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu ********** Eco India is a co-production between DW and Scroll.in. You can watch the full episodes on scroll.in/ecoindia Subscribe to get the latest episodes of Eco India - https://bit.ly/2M9WTXn For more explainers, and the web’s most interesting videos - https://scroll.in/video/ For the latest news and analysis - https://scroll.in Follow Scroll.in here - Facebook:   / scroll.in   Twitter:   / scroll_in   Instagram:   / scroll_in