India's lattice buildings cool without air con

Re:India's lattice buildings cool without air con by nisegami on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @08:13AM (#32994365)

>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

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Re:India's lattice buildings cool without air con by SanjayMehta on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @09:44AM (#32995142)

Caves can get unbearably hot and humid here too.

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Re:India's lattice buildings cool without air con by nisegami on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:24AM (#32995589)

Then you need to dig deeper

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Re:India's lattice buildings cool without air con by Animatronio on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:41AM (#32995863)

Not 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.

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Re:India's lattice buildings cool without air con by pas on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @02:50AM (#33004951)

not too deep though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient

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