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They brought ice from the mountains and stored it for the summer in the underground of buildings in areas like Iran thousands of years ago :) The traditionally
by nottorp 2y ago
They brought ice from the mountains and stored it for the summer in the underground of buildings in areas like Iran thousands of years ago :)
The traditionally hot areas also have other cooling solutions that we forgot about - qanats, wind towers...
- adrianN 2y agoI bet you could bring a lot of ice from the mountains for $22M.
- the_sleaze_ 2y agoThanks for this, I had never heard of qanats or wind towers. I'm imagining a giant modern qanat running underneath a city or a large dense neighborhood and each structure reaching down into it to feed a ground-source heatpump in the cooler water like roots. Everything fed by solar panels on the roofs.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThis is a close description of the latest urban heating and cooling grids, sometimes called 5th Generation District Heating Networks. https://5gdhc.eu/5gdhc-in-short/ https://5gdhc.eu/5gdhc-in-short/