The Ancient World’s Ingenious Ice Making Air Conditioning System 

It amazes me that people still build above the ground below the ground. It stays the same temperature year round. You'll never deal with a hot summer. You'll never deal with a cold winter. You'll never deal with a tornado. You'll never deal with a hurricane It's not rocket science people

Do you accept submissions for video scrips?

if i pay you money on patreon will you stop using the flickering screen effect thing on all your archive footage?

No computers needed😂🎉

Interesting topic, but I had to click off early because you’re talking too fast to fully comprehend and process what you’re saying! You’re not alone; many presenters today do the same thing….I guess it’s just the way of the day?! I believe that there could be much gained from letting your audience know that you care enough about your subject (and their understanding of it) to take your time, and make sure that your message is fully heard and received by all who are listening?!

Someone is going to get insanely wealthy bringing back a lot of these technologies.

@@lijohnyoutube101no, evaporative cooling doesnt work well in humud areas, obviously. And most citites where people live, most not all, are in areas where humidity is relativley high. Notice how he only talk about desert areas? The one place these things work well.

​@JohanHultin by controlling humidity you can control temperature and hear transfer, that's what comfort is. Look for a psychometric chart, it's very interesting

any youtube channel to recommend on this HVAC issue ?

@@JohanHultin I wasn’t just speaking to evaporation cooling. I mean incorporating more eco ways to heat and cool in general.

I can just see the guy slap the wall with his hand and say, "That's not goin' anywhere!"

Just imagine the number of failed experiments they had before they came up with a working mix…..lol

Must've been ostrich egss

Yea I reckon. Chuck it in 😅 home brew's a bit like that.....

I wonder if they tried using other stuff from the goats first...​@@Couchintheclouds

Wow

Yeah if you make an evaporative cooling one that’s basically just a natural swamp cooler instead of just relying on wind. Zion National Park in Utah also has one in the visitor center. Hot 95 degree nights have never felt so cool.

These are on viable and safe in dry climates; in moist damp climates you run the risk of spreading mold spores throughout the structure.

​@troyezell5841 dry air spreads mold spores too. You are constantly surrounded by mold and it's spores

@@hlessiavedon I certainly agree but not near as much and because those climates tend to be exposed to longer duration ultraviolet rays, mold does not propagate as well.

Verily, Michael Scott wouldst beam with pride.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

In the UK we'd say, "...as the actress said to the bishop".

Plastic houses dont last 50 years

@@jussikankinen9409 Junk.....

Not funny maybe......

I imagine in the short term its cheaper to slap a ton of cookie cutter homes with "modern technology" rather than looking back and using what worked thousands of years before.

Sadly it's expensive to build house like that now, since the house prices is crazy in US. A tiny proper fabricated mobile home in average cost 200k, not including land

Evaporative cooling no, but the subterranean cooling can.

It’s perfect in the southwest

...this video isn't about the southern U.S., nor similar climates.

The water from air would turn to water in basement & go into the earth

@@SB-cm9jhit partly is 😂 It used the United States as its example of why we need better cooling systems

Not older, wiser and more curious!!

this is accurate. if I may add, you know you're getting old when you want to iterate that getting older is okay.

Nope. Just a dork. I was just as excited to eatch documentaries before the History channel decided our entire history is aliens.

Guys, we are ok, we are ok.

I don't know about older, but it's content that isn't either imbicilic or depressing, like the news.

That sucks, why don't you move??

@@Deyas786family, job.

Should look up oljas. Bare fired clay water jugs, the water seeping through and evaporating off the clay cools the whole water dish. Gets it somewhere between room temp and fresh out the fridge. Farming communities used to cut huge chunks of ice out of lakes in winter and pack them into a fuckton of packed sawdust then dig out the ice to use periodically through summer. You can do similar with a broken down chest freezer and a bunch of 2 litre soda bottles full of ice. Couple minutes a week to swap out bottles and you should be good for a while if the power goes out. A full freezer is more efficient too so keeping spare room filled with ice bottles is always good. Another one is a couple solar powered PC fans, a hunk of ice and some holes cut in a drink cooler can make a pretty great portable aircon. There's tutorials all over the place for building them. I live in Australia, not quite as bad as desert living but God damn summer gets brutal and I'm a broke bitch lol.

Thanks for the info

​@@Deyas786because every person has the resources and ability to move to wherever they want to, of course, and otherwise where they current live is perfect.

My dad does the same things. Crazy how that worked.

We still do that!

Even though I live in a single floor house, the idea of heat battery works marvelously well by sleeping with all windows open and keeping an electric fan pointed towards one of the house's windows if there is no wind. Airflow is low, but over several hours, it does cool the house until around 8AM. Then I close all windows, keeping the heat out. Living without an AC sucks, but this makes it manageable.

Using a fan to blow out the hot air sucks in the cool air even better!

@@NothingXemnas try making the fan a bit away from the window, look up bernouli’s principle it might remove the hot air in the house even faster!

Evap. cooling didn't/doesn't work at all for me in Oklahoma.

@@keith38able pheonix and las vegas could probably benifit from incorporation of these ideas though. as could a good chunk of socal

These systems also use radiative cooling which will work anywhere regardless of humidity (though clouds and rain will overshadow radiative cooling effects. Radiative cooling uses large shallow pools of water. At night when the sky is clear the water will radiate a significant amount of heat. This can cause it to freeze even on nights where the ambient temperature is above zero. Before dawn workers cut up the ice sheet and store the ice in an ice house. With modern insulation materials an even more pronounced drop in temperature is possible.

I lived in western Oklahoma in the 80s. Evaporative coolers were common then. Later we lived in El Paso TX while stationed at Ft Bliss and had Evaporative cooling in our housing. I like it better than freon air conditioning. ​@keith38able

We have a fan forced evaporative cooler on our roof in Australia - when its hot & dry we run it with water dripping over the intake vents ... when its hot & steamy we turn off the water & use the humidity. It works a treat & costs very little to run.

Those aren’t wind catchers though they are evaporative cooling towers and even the ancient Arabian ones used water evaporation as well instead of just wind alone. Fad boy really missed the mark on this one.

Exactly. I see guys with the old "swamp coolers" on their classic cars at shows here and although it looks nostalgic evaporative coolers just don't work in Florida lol.

Still, if this could be implemented everywhere where the humidity is below a certain average, it could save huge amounts of power.

​@@marktg98sadly, in the US you're limited to basically the states to the east or the Rockies, and the southwest. Which happens to be most of our lower population states.

And your governor is practically making alternative energy generation illegal while removing all mention of climate change from all government departments.

They don’t work in coastal Virginia either. We sit around 90% humidity during the spring and summer

Maybe pyramids were ice houses

They do. You just have to pay more in taxes.

Same. I usually watch everything at 1.5x speed and up. Not this video. 😅

After years of reading scripts that someone else wrote he's probably just trying to get through them all as fast as possible at this point

The editing cuts are _way_ too short, with no natural breathing pauses. Too many channels are doing this now. Gotta say, it's getting annoying.

Had to go back many times to keep up.

Yeah. Ditto. Can't watch on ff anymore, even 1.5 is WAY too fast to understand.

I'm just trying to imagine what an ancient Persian owner of an HVAC company would look like 🤣

😂😂😂

Was it really crazy ?

Could you name the place maybe ?

Right I was thinking the same thing!

@@brycemooreguitar It is a tremendously long novel, but I will have to re-read it again this year, I think. It has so many facets that it is almost always fascinating.

@@ericbartol it's absolutely worth a re read, I'm on my second time through the entire series, although I listen on audible so it makes it alot easier as I can listen while I work, and drive. But it's definitely one of my favorite science fiction series. I realize another layer to the stories the second time through.

A lot of elements in Dune even outside of the Fremen and the planet dune is taken from Iranian ideology. Mahdi is almost exclusively Persian islam as it is a concept exclusive to 12 imam Shia muslims which is a sect that was born in Iran and is the biggest shia sect. The emperor's title is Padishah which is a persian word meaning great king. Lisan al gaib is arabic for "hidden tongue". This specific title I have not seen given to anyone else in the world except Hafiz who was an Iranian Poet from Shiraz whose poems are revered as a part of Iranian mysticism. And funnily enough people consider his poems prophetic and read his peoms as a sort of prophecy to their specific questions. Like I would ask "is it wise to pursue this specific endeavour" and randomly open the book and read the poem that comes up and that poem would be my answer. Or words like selamalik which is a word with origin in Arabic but almost exclusively used in Persian and Turkish speaking countries for hello. The name for Chani's tribe's Soldiers. Fadayikin is made up of a persian and an english word. Fadayi means the thing to be sacrificed, in this case a person. Fun fact, in 20th century there were two terrorist parties called Fadayian as they focused on assassinations of government officials, one was communist, the other muslim fundamentalist. The flag of Fremen is an eagle with outstretched wings, very similar to the Achaemenid eagle flag. There is also a good chunk of influences from Turkish language. It is very interesting in general.

It’s on our blood

Sun is eye

People are more in tune with mother Earth and nature then. We need to get back to it.

@@markbroad119 id argue that its more neccessity being the mother of invention. very similar to how early programming tricks were used to make use of the much lower storage/processing capacity. you can only use what resources you have, so you find tricks and short cuts to maximize those resources. conversely, today, things that programmers past might have squeezed into mere kilobytes of storage, take up megabytes because well, they have terrabytes to work with. why bother making things efficient when sheer data capacity and raw processing power can brute force any inefficiency into better performance than the 1980s could have ever dreamed? same goes for this. when you have "abundant" power, and cheap modern machinery, why bother with the effort and time to improve efficency when you can use that same brute force and abundance to make up for any loss in the move away from traditional techniques? you can even see the argument in why suddenly the attention on these things is back. suddenly, that power and machinery isnt so "cheap" or "abundant" anymore. theres more value to be had again in finding ways to make what one has go further. and so, once again, that effort in taking advantage of these natural principles is worth peoples time and energy.

This aint going to work in an apartment complex. Or when it gets hot enough that your phone will shut down, whinging about overheating.

@@ZeroHourProductions407 and why wont it work for apartments, my good HVAC tech?

@@Skywatcher16 for one, nobody has built an apartment complex with a basement since ever. Secondly, everyone or nobody can vent to get the benefits.

I suspect most of the arictect designing those structures don't know what the original function was, let alone how to design it to be functional.

Less good for airborne allergens

Yeah but how long will your batteries last before needing replaced? The costs of buying and maintaining solar at that small of scale is too high for me. Wood gasification is a better solution for me, but I am in a rural area with many acres.

@@floridaboiwoody 12-15 years estimate

​@@KokkiePietthat's just when they will reach an arbitrary 70 or 80% efficiency compared to when they were first bought, you can use them for MANY years after that with reduced effectiveness

​@@sagetmaster4assuming you could afford at time of installation to have excess capacity.

@@sagetmaster4 true

And this functions so much superiour, especialy when the electricity is turned ON for two hours each day. This is still true for most villages and even some small towns in all regions of this video topic.

Did u learn in high school

But can use solar panel and not needed in night

I think that's where all this is gonna end up. They just don't want us to panic.

You mean the *original* channel with Simon Whistler

Yea lol, this is the original one. But I do like some of his new ones.

Eskimos use insulation

For the vibes of course

You kids have the attention span of a goldfish

I didn't even notice it

I have to say that, as a former motion picture projectionist, I'm really annoyed by fake fire-roller scratches, and specks of dust on videos.

@@TheRealDrJoey it just looks bad and i see no point in it, it makes me think my monitor is broken :D

Hmm.. yea at night when the outside temps go down to below freezing. I´m not able to feel impressed by this feat honestly.