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Maybe it was edited after it was posted, but it doesn’t say no AC—it said the town should be designed to function without AC in case of power outages and use as
by justusthane 5y ago
Maybe it was edited after it was posted, but it doesn’t say no AC—it said the town should be designed to function without AC in case of power outages and use as much passive cooling as possible, but that AC can be added in as needed.
- freeone3000 5y agoSo, constantly. It's Texas. 40C summers are normal. The state was sparsely populated, even by 19th century standards, until air conditioning became a common fixture. It's a necessity.
- dredmorbius 5y agoIn west Texas, assuming you have access to water (by no means a guarantee), the option for water-based cooling (evaporative or indirect cooling) is present. "Swamp coolers" have a deservedly bad rap in humid climates, they're far more tolerable in dry ones. Forms of evaporative + stored thermal mass cooling (rooftop sprinkler systems, perhaps combined with a rooftop garden and an underground irrigation + cooling mass water system) could provide the basis for an indirect cooling system that isn't reliant on electrical power, though it would still have fairly high evaporative losses.