2024 Jan-Feb RETA Breeze

OZZY OSBOURNE’S POOL By Arlie Farley During the heat wave in 2019, singer Ozzy Osbourne’s home pool was too hot, so he decided to purchase a truck load of ice to cool it down. They delivered 3,000 lbs. of block ice to his house and dropped them in the pool to cool it off. Apparently, it backfired. 10 of the 300 lb. ice blocks only dropped the degrees, and his wife Sharron would not allow him to buy any more ice to drop the temperature further. I guess he should have talked with a refrigeration tech and we would have told him a BTU is a BTU and 10 of the 300 lb. blocks in a pool is like 10 ice cubes in a 5-gal bucket. Not going to do anything. I had my brainiac brother Jake Farley run the numbers. Going backwards I estimate 1 pound of ice at 200 BTU’s potential. 3,000 pounds is equal to 6 million Btu’s / 3* temperature reduction/ 8.34 pounds of water per gallon indicates that Ozzy’s pool should be approximately 24,000 gallons.

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