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You would think there would be traditional solutions for that, why not a put a cart full of dark stones in the sun during the day and then roll it inside in the
by blacksmith_tb 5y ago
You would think there would be traditional solutions for that, why not a put a cart full of dark stones in the sun during the day and then roll it inside in the cold of night? Modern variations on that theme could store thermal energy in plenty of equally-simple ways.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThere are all sorts of things that are technically possible but the materials handling requirements do not make them cheap/efficient enough to do practically without electricity. See aluminum ore processing for example.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoA house may be "a machine for living in" but the scale of the solutions needed aren't as serious as industrial processes like mining surely? I haven't lived in a structure using them, but there are Phase Change[1] insulations out there, for example. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_material https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_material
- FredPret 5y agoProbably less work to just have a lot of blankets!
- Retric 5y agoYou want to maximize how much the house cools at night to minimize daytime temperature. Then to maintain a comfortable temperature just add thermal mass.