Hi there, time to share ways to keep your home cool during hot times

So ok, usual ways I use:

  • open everything during night
  • close everything during day
  • external sheets on windows without shutters
  • some curtains to prevent heat from going upstairs

I was also wondering if plants could also help inside, any ideas ?

Share your advices !

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    5 hours ago

    You can also run the pipe through an evaporative cooler to cool the air even more.

    At some point there, you’ve just reinvented AC.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Only if you use a better working fluid and add compression and expansion steps, but a long pipe in a ditch filled with water isn’t what I would call AC quite yet.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Aren’t there AC systems that just evapourate water from municipal supplies to the atmosphere?

        I mean, yes, I’d agree that blowing air over a standing water body isn’t AC, but we’re getting close.

        • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I think on a purely technical note, Air Conditioning goes beyond just cooling the air and involves reduction of humidity. Personally, I wouldn’t consider it AC because you’d have to keep refilling the evaporator resivor, instead of just powering the device, but that is a nitpicky item that isn’t technically a requirement.