weird thoughts i have:
all of Rome existed without refrigeration.
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Yes but they had gardens and salt and lard
No active refrigeration but they did have some really awesome cold stores and cellars π
even saw something about chilling walls with aqueducts once, liquid cooling!
its not a but.
its a how.
i usually think in how.
weird thoughts I have:
God never made any machines.
Yes, how the heck did they figure out home liquid cooling
i would say fairly easily actually. running water is generally cooler than surface temperatures, and stores energy. whether heat, or cool. sitting on a cool river stone on a sunny day is all it would take to spark that idea. π‘
Ok but no one else was running water through their city like that! One thing to have the idea, another to say yep not only will we run the water, we'll do it close enough to walls so that they're cooler
Not just Romans, many ancient civilisations used water and underground chambers for refrigeration. It's amazing how much we've forgotten with the ease of use of electricity.
YakhchΔl - Wikipedia
Ancient Origins Reconstructing the story of humanity
Ancient Advanced Technology: 2,400-Year-Old Yakhchals Kept Ice in the Desert | Ancient Origins
The yakhchal was a type of ancient ice house (refrigerator) built in the deserts of Persia - demonstrating the human ability to find solutions to p...
Love ancient origins π°π³οΈs
π― great site. I love the ancient technology section especially.
Another cool old tech, pot in pot evaporative coolers. I've rabbit holed this particular topic before. This has been in use by our ancestors for ~5000 years.
Pot-in-pot refrigerator - Wikipedia
i love these. the Persians built giant ones.
You know it's good tech when it was invented millennia ago and is still in use today.
If you dig a deep enough hole, you get a type of refrigeration.