Modern technology has certainly served us well in our homes. Today we have natural gas lines, electricity, air conditioning, microwaves, hot water, hot running water, refrigeration, and all the modern amenities. But we also use a lot of energy. Now engineers are working on high tech appliances that are ultra-super efficient. It is truly amazing the quality of life we can live for such low costs.
Still, I've always thought that the ancient cultures who dug tunnels underground and allowed wind blowing into one end of the tunnel with outlets into the living area for air-cooling were wise, and that was a form of air-conditioning and it didn't take any energy once the tunnels for ventilation were created. No it wasn't perfect, but it worked. Even the American Indians built Kivas to stay cool in the hot summers and many of them had devised various rudimentary forms of air cooling vent systems.
Now we are looking at ways to create green homes using alternative energy technologies and it seems that distributive energy makes sense doesn't it. We need to be both efficient and wise when it comes to our power needs, at least this is what the expert believe, and I suppose both you and I concur completely.
Solar water obviously makes sense, as even if you can get the water to outside ambient temperature or close, you've saved a huge amount of energy heating it from the underground temps where the pipes are of 55-degrees, and heating water one degree takes a good amount of energy if you use any volume at all. Anytime we can devise simple systems and tricks of physics to help us with our technology we are miles ahead. So, we need both ancient and modern technology to live well and maintain our quality of life, please consider that.
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