Nowhere near as old, century homes are often very good with temperature control. The triple brick or thick stone construction keeps the summer heat at bay without any A/C and keeps the heat in during the winter.
Solid stone is actually BAD because it holds thermal mass. If it gets hot it STAYS hot. I know this stuff because I built a thermal mass heater of MY OWN design. On one side of my bedroom.
somewhat more advanced technology using the same system was used in the middle east, underground tunnels combined with, basically, a chimney to take advantage of the hotter air rising to draw air through the tunnel where the air would cool down. I am currently working on a passive heater/cooler design. I have to get a few more things before I can prototype it, but basically you have a water reservoir inside to act as thermal storage and outside you have a radiator, in the summer you set the radiator higher than the tank so that warm water flows up to the radiator where it cools then flows back to the tank. in the winter move the radiator below the tank level so it operates in reverse, although, I'm pretty sure for heating the liquid needs to go through a black coiled pipe to get the most energy from the sun, since a radiator, by it's nature, is a lot better at giving off heat haha.
@@wittysatan3821 yes, my friend I am fully aware of this and no one said otherwise. The reference was made to Medieval Cairo because of their contribution too which others are not fully aware of! .... But Yes, Persians have this full claim!
I'm about to upload videos of my thermal mass wood heater of my own design. It's on a concrete base THEN completely covered in a cement, sand and perlite mix, with the firebox on top of that covered in old SOLID bricks on top and stone on one side. With one firing a day it keeps warm 24/7 and will heat the room with a circulation fan. With 2 firings, the second one being 3 hours after the first, it will heat the room without a fan. The second firing will raise the stones to a temperature so hot you can't keep your hands held on the middle section. Not hot enough to cook anything but getting scalding hot. The radiant heat at that point is coming off the stone really well. And the best part it, if you light it at sundown and do the second firing at around 10pm, it's hottest point is around dawn when it's coldest outside. One of the best house modifications I've ever done. I live off grid. I was going to use water but decided it was unnecessary complication with corrosion, steam either building up pressure or needing water topping up daily or weekly so just stuck to stone. Sand will work too but the first design had creosote leaking problems and the second design hat worked got rid of the sand in order to modify the chimney to steel.
I currently live in Cumbria in a wooden cabin, as i didn't build it on posts away from the ground, I find a grate deal of insect intruders, whom only a nice hot fire can keep at bay. the shade of a good tree and a air tower do wonders for hot weather without any need for ground dwellings. most cultures around the world have some form of mud house from times of limited tools and resources. man insects are the worst ha I pour a cup of tea and there is a dam beastie at the bottom !
AIR CONDITIONING is the process of removing heat from a space to create a more comfortable interior environment. This fits the bill perfectly, contrary to bobbobbly7900's ridiculous comment. Thank you to the creators of this video. It gives me another possible design feature for the cool storage outbuilding we eventually need to build.
That's pretty cool, I thought you were going to something about a yakhchal, it also is an ancient form of evaporative cooling, I didn't know any of the tribes had such a thing, thanks.
Trees are air conditioners, too. They suck up water from, say an 8sqft area of ground and allow it to evaporate from the trees total surface area which is much more than 8. Stepping in a forest is not just stepping in to shade.
So I like the idea, but my worry would be with floods. Since it's lower than the ground outside. The water would want to rush in. The plus side is you would have a "cool pool". Pun intended 😂.
@@Jaster_Mereel I live in Arizona (a desert) and there are some years we get a surprising amount of flooding. Although if it was as dry as it was this year, that structure would probably hold up fine.
We use the same principle to create the coldest temperatures in the universe. It's called laser cooling. The Pueblo homes were boxes with open tops and ladders to descend into the structure. It was a great design for the desert in the summertime. The best ancient AC is just north of Flagstaff, AZ. There is a natural crack in the Earth that ties into a cave system in an adjacent hillside. The cool/moist air from the caves descends and exits at the crack in the earth lower down. Over a thousand years ago, the locals built a walled structure around this natural cold spring so they could have a comfortable place to be in the Arizona summer heat. They also built a ball court for a game very much like soccer that was cooled by the caves. Ancient people were no less creative than modern people are today. They did quite well with what they had.
For the sake of this discussion, I'll agree with your statement. The sorts of structures shown in the video were built and inhabited on the North American continent long before Europeans "discovered" the Americas. It is quite possible that the indigenous peoples likely came up with this structure without outside influence, in the same way pyramids were built in Mexico without influence of outside cultures.
China is the Center of current human civilization; the Chinese have 6,000 years of continuous history, Chinese people also have 土掌房 "Tuzhangfang" a type of house directly from the pre-flood era with earth walls and a thatched roof. This construction method makes the roof resistant to leaks, provides warmth in winter and coolness in summer, and exhibits good thermal insulation and fire resistance. The house absorbs and releases heat slowly, naturally regulating the temperature difference between day and night and ensuring a comfortable living environment inside throughout the year. With proper maintenance of the thatched roof, Tukufang can generally be inhabited for several decades or even hundreds of years. Even when renovation is needed, it is less labor-intensive compared to other types of construction.
@@joecerbone8415 Caucasians and Romans don't even remember what Etruscans were, nor the Sumerians. Our Chinese ancient houses look exactly the same as those of the Sumerian and Harappan houses because we have a continuous history dating back to the pre-flood era, while you don't ;)
Like I said...how are those historical houses holding up in Beijing right now? Lmao about as good as the rest of Beijing? Your talking about preflood era....I'm taking about NOW! Forbidden city,flooded.... Beijing flooded....wazzup Beijing?! Rome conquered the world tardo...while you stayed in your rice fields..... Go build some more tofu dredge buildings and talk to me about great buildings,....didn't a school just collapse and kill a volleyball team last week?! Great Chinese buildings my ass
Give them a break about the thermometer. They have taken pains to discribed how they subjectively feel. We have lost touch on how to relate with all these hard numbers.
Same could be said for the Inca and Romans. They both had fairly advanced architecture and civil engineering but were conquered or anhialated. Just because you figured out how to keep your house cool doesn't mean you can stop small pox.
@@dattebenforcer clearly not cos they didnt do shit like burn the library of Alexandria or drink lead sweetened wine and stuff. Or that their government system across the empire was fragmented and stuff. etc etc.
@Mr Rish The Cookie if the women aren't having enough kids to replace the existing population, the civilization falters, if the men who run and maintain civilization are disenfranchised, society falls and there also aren't enough troops to defend the nation from an invader.
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Nowhere near as old, century homes are often very good with temperature control. The triple brick or thick stone construction keeps the summer heat at bay without any A/C and keeps the heat in during the winter.
Solid stone is actually BAD because it holds thermal mass. If it gets hot it STAYS hot. I know this stuff because I built a thermal mass heater of MY OWN design. On one side of my bedroom.
I think it's probably more than just the brick, but whatever it is it's definitely a real phenomenon. We have forgotten how to build homes.
i would have kinda liked some temperature inside outside comparisons :/
But nice video none the less
I wish we had a thermometer too. Would have been nice to get hard numbers and not just our subjective sense of temperature. JF
Go back again with a digital thermometre.
somewhat more advanced technology using the same system was used in the middle east, underground tunnels combined with, basically, a chimney to take advantage of the hotter air rising to draw air through the tunnel where the air would cool down.
I am currently working on a passive heater/cooler design. I have to get a few more things before I can prototype it, but basically you have a water reservoir inside to act as thermal storage and outside you have a radiator, in the summer you set the radiator higher than the tank so that warm water flows up to the radiator where it cools then flows back to the tank. in the winter move the radiator below the tank level so it operates in reverse, although, I'm pretty sure for heating the liquid needs to go through a black coiled pipe to get the most energy from the sun, since a radiator, by it's nature, is a lot better at giving off heat haha.
If you are interested in this, then you should also look for and is available. The Wind-catchers of Medieval Cairo and its Secrets.
@@shefayetchowdhury6316 wind catcher's belong us Persians and we have 3000 year old patents of it..
@@wittysatan3821 yes, my friend I am fully aware of this and no one said otherwise. The reference was made to Medieval Cairo because of their contribution too which others are not fully aware of! .... But Yes, Persians have this full claim!
I'm about to upload videos of my thermal mass wood heater of my own design. It's on a concrete base THEN completely covered in a cement, sand and perlite mix, with the firebox on top of that covered in old SOLID bricks on top and stone on one side. With one firing a day it keeps warm 24/7 and will heat the room with a circulation fan. With 2 firings, the second one being 3 hours after the first, it will heat the room without a fan. The second firing will raise the stones to a temperature so hot you can't keep your hands held on the middle section. Not hot enough to cook anything but getting scalding hot. The radiant heat at that point is coming off the stone really well. And the best part it, if you light it at sundown and do the second firing at around 10pm, it's hottest point is around dawn when it's coldest outside. One of the best house modifications I've ever done. I live off grid. I was going to use water but decided it was unnecessary complication with corrosion, steam either building up pressure or needing water topping up daily or weekly so just stuck to stone. Sand will work too but the first design had creosote leaking problems and the second design hat worked got rid of the sand in order to modify the chimney to steel.
I currently live in Cumbria in a wooden cabin, as i didn't build it on posts away from the ground, I find a grate deal of insect intruders, whom only a nice hot fire can keep at bay. the shade of a good tree and a air tower do wonders for hot weather without any need for ground dwellings. most cultures around the world have some form of mud house from times of limited tools and resources. man insects are the worst ha I pour a cup of tea and there is a dam beastie at the bottom !
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AIR CONDITIONING is the process of removing heat from a space to create a more comfortable interior environment.
This fits the bill perfectly, contrary to bobbobbly7900's ridiculous comment.
Thank you to the creators of this video. It gives me another possible design feature for the cool storage outbuilding we eventually need to build.
You got me guys! Thanks for sharing!
Also look up "Air Well" to collect water from the air naturally without electricity.
That downward hole is nice.
But what happens when it rains?
I found your page looking at yakchals and i like your video.
That's pretty cool, I thought you were going to something about a yakhchal, it also is an ancient form of evaporative cooling, I didn't know any of the tribes had such a thing, thanks.
Trees are air conditioners, too. They suck up water from, say an 8sqft area of ground and allow it to evaporate from the trees total surface area which is much more than 8. Stepping in a forest is not just stepping in to shade.
Not to forget the dome roof.
So I like the idea, but my worry would be with floods. Since it's lower than the ground outside. The water would want to rush in. The plus side is you would have a "cool pool". Pun intended 😂.
Probably not a problem in the desert...
@@Jaster_Mereel I live in Arizona (a desert) and there are some years we get a surprising amount of flooding. Although if it was as dry as it was this year, that structure would probably hold up fine.
You don't have to use it in low land
We don't live in the valley especially in desert for that reason
Showing a thermometer would make this movie make a lot of sense.
Didn't have one with us at the time. That would have been a really good addition.
Will this work in a humid climate?
If only we had invented an interment that could distinguish differences in temperature. Such a device could be so useful.
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We use the same principle to create the coldest temperatures in the universe. It's called laser cooling.
The Pueblo homes were boxes with open tops and ladders to descend into the structure.
It was a great design for the desert in the summertime.
The best ancient AC is just north of Flagstaff, AZ.
There is a natural crack in the Earth that ties into a cave system in an adjacent hillside.
The cool/moist air from the caves descends and exits at the crack in the earth lower down.
Over a thousand years ago, the locals built a walled structure around this natural cold spring so they could have a comfortable place to be in the Arizona summer heat. They also built a ball court for a game very much like soccer that was cooled by the caves.
Ancient people were no less creative than modern people are today. They did quite well with what they had.
Never mind mosquitoes and Radon radiation..ah well...there's always a trade-off.
Except the fact..all venomous creatures slithering through that air vent hole at the bottom
are they prone to flooding?
This concept was created in Eygpt and they don’t get floods out their.
For the sake of this discussion, I'll agree with your statement. The sorts of structures shown in the video were built and inhabited on the North American continent long before Europeans "discovered" the Americas. It is quite possible that the indigenous peoples likely came up with this structure without outside influence, in the same way pyramids were built in Mexico without influence of outside cultures.
i was thinking what happens when it rains? do they put some kind of house topper to keep the rain out? great video thanks G&B
Fortunately it's the southwest US, so it just doesn't rain. More seriously, I assume you'd cover it with leather and not build on the low ground. JF
China is the Center of current human civilization; the Chinese have 6,000 years of continuous history, Chinese people also have 土掌房 "Tuzhangfang" a type of house directly from the pre-flood era with earth walls and a thatched roof. This construction method makes the roof resistant to leaks, provides warmth in winter and coolness in summer, and exhibits good thermal insulation and fire resistance.
The house absorbs and releases heat slowly, naturally regulating the temperature difference between day and night and ensuring a comfortable living environment inside throughout the year. With proper maintenance of the thatched roof, Tukufang can generally be inhabited for several decades or even hundreds of years. Even when renovation is needed, it is less labor-intensive compared to other types of construction.
You keep telling yourself that buddy.....Hows them houses holding up in the flood?
@@joecerbone8415 Caucasians and Romans don't even remember what Etruscans were, nor the Sumerians. Our Chinese ancient houses look exactly the same as those of the Sumerian and Harappan houses because we have a continuous history dating back to the pre-flood era, while you don't ;)
Like I said...how are those historical houses holding up in Beijing right now? Lmao about as good as the rest of Beijing? Your talking about preflood era....I'm taking about NOW! Forbidden city,flooded.... Beijing flooded....wazzup Beijing?! Rome conquered the world tardo...while you stayed in your rice fields..... Go build some more tofu dredge buildings and talk to me about great buildings,....didn't a school just collapse and kill a volleyball team last week?! Great Chinese buildings my ass
And you didn't consider to bring along a thermometer for inside/outside ambient air temperature comparisons?
Dude, I didn't even think to bring sunscreen. 😂 More seriously, we didn't know that there would be a Fremont pit house at the museum. JF
@@GoodandBasic
Did you at least take along some toilet paper? 😆
Good video, could’ve been a bit longer though.
why don't you use sunscreen? I bet there's an interesting explanation for that
Not particularly. I just forget to put it on and then don't stop until it's too late. JF
hearing him complain about 80°F, while im sitting here in Dubai at 118°F ~ 48°C
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When the outside temps are 120F there is no "cool air". You're just stuck inside a hot hole in the dirt.
Give them a break about the thermometer. They have taken pains to discribed how they subjectively feel. We have lost touch on how to relate with all these hard numbers.
Reptile entrypoint.
Could even use the hole in the roof to smoke some meat
not air conditioning at all ,is it ,just using air flow through a building ..different as chalk and cheese.....nonsense story really
You will be cool, but the trade off is, you will also have rodents and snakes. LoL
Might have been nice for you to have brought an actual thermometer.
If they were so advanced, then why were they wiped out?
Same could be said for the Inca and Romans. They both had fairly advanced architecture and civil engineering but were conquered or anhialated. Just because you figured out how to keep your house cool doesn't mean you can stop small pox.
Rome fell because they gave women too many rights and too much power.
@@dattebenforcer Okay, boomer.
@@dattebenforcer clearly not cos they didnt do shit like burn the library of Alexandria or drink lead sweetened wine and stuff.
Or that their government system across the empire was fragmented and stuff. etc etc.
@Mr Rish The Cookie if the women aren't having enough kids to replace the existing population, the civilization falters, if the men who run and maintain civilization are disenfranchised, society falls and there also aren't enough troops to defend the nation from an invader.
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