Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year agoAncient Iran had air conditioninglemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down13
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minus-squareGangreless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 year agoA modern home ACs can only cool about 20f below the outside temperature. 50c to 35c is 27 degrees so that’s pretty damn good for a fancy unpowered swamp cooler
minus-squarehairinmybellybutt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agook, but the cost of building a quanat is still pretty high and is not trivial to achieve. Can’t have water flowing everywhere in a country for this to work.
A modern home ACs can only cool about 20f below the outside temperature. 50c to 35c is 27 degrees so that’s pretty damn good for a fancy unpowered swamp cooler
ok, but the cost of building a quanat is still pretty high and is not trivial to achieve.
Can’t have water flowing everywhere in a country for this to work.