• Gangreless@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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

      • hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.world
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        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.

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      1 year ago

      Might not be a shivering 16 Celsius inside, but if it’s the difference between dead and alive then it’s probably good enough.

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          It’s the internet, you never know. In person, by how the person behaves, you know if he’s being sarcastic or not. On the internet, not so much. It’s just text and I’ve seen people who were quite serious.

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      1 year ago

      Oh man, I can’t believe ancient physics powered cooking techniques weren’t as efficient as the electrically powered cooling that we have today, those idiots