Now that summer is apparently running full blast it's nice to know that our local power company has rebates on cooling systems: Xcel Energy Cooling Rebates. My existing swamp cooler (aka "evaporative cooler") was manufactured in January 1999. It still worked but had a decent amount of scale and rust going on so I was planning to replace it anyway (actually saw the sign for the rebates inside the store). So $350 to replace the cooler, and a $200 rebate coming back - I got to upgrade to a new unit for a whopping $150. This applied even to the unit I bought, a "Champion WM28C", which is made to be window-mount and not whole-house.     #>