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Ancient Iran had air conditioning (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A modern home ACs can only cool about 20f below the outside temperature. 50c to 35c is 27 degrees so that's pretty damn good for a fancy unpowered swamp cooler

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

ok, but the cost of building a quanat is still pretty high and is not trivial to achieve.

Can't have water flowing everywhere in a country for this to work.