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This might still be appealing to young people, especially those who do not like the noise/pollution of big cities and can't afford them?
by akudha 1y ago
This might still be appealing to young people, especially those who do not like the noise/pollution of big cities and can't afford them?
- bee_rider 1y agoI could see the appeal of a shack, but I suspect a castle would be quite a maintainence burden. I guess nowadays one would not need to employ as large a retinue… but you don’t get to tax the local villages anymore. Seems like a wash.
- AndrewDavis 1y agoI really enjoy the TV show Escape to the Chateau. A lot of couple buy an old run down French chateau and move in with their two kids. Each episode is roughly them doing up a part of it. Often with ideas for making money out of it. Very much light entertainment, but it's eye opening how significant of a restoration and maintenance burden it is.
- thefz 1y agoDo you have any idea of the thermal inertia of a castle? How are you going to heat it to an acceptable living temperature?
- yread 1y agoIf you spend 700k eur on heating instead of on the purchase price you can stay warm for quite a while
- Someone 1y agoI wouldn’t count on that. https://www.lifestyledaily.co.uk/article/2021/03/23/how-much-it-costs-heat-bridgerton-and-crown-lookalike-palaces https://www.lifestyledaily.co.uk/article/2021/03/23/how-much... gives £209k as an estimate for heating the main house from Downton Abbey. Now, Italy is a bit warmer than the UK, and most castles a bit smaller, but castles in Italy can be on colder mountaintops.
- yobbo 1y ago1. Accept lower temperature in the stonework/bricks/concrete 2. Use heatpumps, wood furnaces, accumulator tanks 3. Only heat the rooms you use when you use them. It's very doable, especially in Italy.
- Tpt 1y agoA lot of large castle owners in France have setup a small apartment on the side for winter and use the main rooms only occasionally and during summer. This is not something new, in Versailles you can visit the king actual private bedroom that is much smaller and easy to heat than the official one.
- whatevaa 1y agoSecond point has no point, heat pumps are overhyped on expensive electricity, accumulator tanks still need be heated up by something. Lot's of energy must be spent. 3 point is silly, such "houses" have massive thermal inertia, it's gonna take a while to heat those rooms when you start using them and heat is gonna "bleed" internally anyway. It will cost you a lot anyway, can't escape entropy.
- devilbunny 1y agoOne very interesting idea I read about long ago was the use of low-power microwave emitters to make rooms feel much warmer - the author of the piece described the feeling as "like stepping into sunlight" when the emitters turned on. Makes the 2.4 GHz spectrum pretty unusable, though.
- SURA 1y agoWarmth from the inside out, to be honest I'm a little scared
- exe34 1y agoI would not connect it to Alexa.
- robocat 1y ago"It is well established that high-power microwave radiation can induce cataracts via its thermal effects"
- illiac786 1y agoBut the previous comment said “low power”?
- robocat 1y agoThe point is that if you are feeling actual thermal effects then you're probably in the danger zone of high power. They implied the effect was thermal "to make rooms feel much warmer", "like stepping into sunlight"; without clarification from them then my assumption is good that they were not talking about milliwatts.
- devilbunny 1y agoIt was not an article in an engineering journal, so no mention of power.
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- solardev 1y agoTrain a LOT of models?
- fxtentacle 1y agoTurns out Sam Altman accidentally bought a vacation home with broken heating in Alaska and his subsequent obsession with expensing the heating bill on the company CC is what brought us ChatGPT ;)
- amluto 1y agoThermal inertia can be a benefit: while it largely prevents you from benefiting from turning off the heat when you’re not home, it smooths out diurnal fluctuations and lets your control just the average temperature. So your windows can provide lots of solar gain, for example, without overheating you during the daytime. The real problems are that stone is a terrible insulator, that single-pane windows are even worse, and that air leakage in old structures is incredibly wasteful.
- ASalazarMX 1y ago"I couldn't afford to live in the city, so I bought a castle".