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>Now, of course, the best design for staying cool would be an underground cave carved out of rock with no windows—-but is that really how we want to live? Addi
by nisegami 4y ago
>Now, of course, the best design for staying cool would be an underground cave carved out of rock with no windows—-but is that really how we want to live?
Adding light and some ventilation is a lot less energy intensive than cooling
- SanjayMehta 4y agoCaves can get unbearably hot and humid here too.
- nisegami 4y agoThen you need to dig deeper
- Animatronio 4y agoNot too deep because you know what's there. I don't mean the balrog, rather infrastructure for water, sewage, etc. Granted that might not be the case on private property, and in India, but still. Where I live people sometimes cut underground power cables, water or nat gas.
- pas 4y agonot too deep though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient