Cool Surge update
Posted by Dan on May 8th, 2009
2009
May 8
Last year’s post on the Cool Surge scam has had a lot of comments this week. Apparently the Cool Surge people are running the same misleading ads again with the new warm season. It’s good to see that so many people are googling the product after reading the ads, and I’m happy to play my small part in debunking the thing.
June 28th update: this post originally claimed that the Cool Surge was not technically a swamp cooler. Wrong! It turns out that there is a water reservoir not mentioned in the full-page ad. I apologize for my error.
Green Homes America has a good analysis. Also see the writeup at Consumer Reports. Finally, a video of the test Consumer Reports ran: