Ancient Iran had air conditioning

This isn't just mildly interesting. We should be considering methods of air cooling that do not use any carbon in order to avoid aircon usage becoming a contributor to the climate problem as things get hotter and hotter.

I love passive systems. The more passive the better.

Not really mentioned in the picture but Qanats are basically underground aquaducts, bringing water from nearby mountains to the cities. They can be up to 70km long. We went into one when I visited Iran.

Not quite an air conditioner, but it seems modernizing it could be a great idea for new constructions to save on power. Maybe as a supplement to Air Conditioners.

Lotta old Victorian homes and factories from that Era did the same thing (without water obviously just a big tower to catch the wind). More like an attic fan than an AC in those cases, still a pretty clever way to move air without electricity. Always impressed by how clever people were back in the old times

Ancient Iran had swamp coolers* to be more accurate here.

This works in the desert, but you can't replicate it in a humid climate like you can with AC.

I tought this was a meme and have been looking for Saddam Hussein's red sillouette for half a minute.

Iran used to have AC. They still do, but they used to, too.

Wow, I thought quanat was a made-up word from dune.

I was told that the houses in trinidad, Cuba have a similar cooling effect. Also the round white houses in tunesia have a cooling effect. Any tunesian or Cubans here?

This looks like some other things I have heard of before.

Makes me wonder how many ancient desert cultures designed ways to cool the air in their structures.

I remember using something similar to that in college but if I recall correctly it was for weed

I think that the Eastgate Mall in Zimbabwe makes usage of a similar principle, but their inspiration came from Termite Mounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8DSdfoiZw

architecture like this would be better for the environment than industrial air conditioning

wait isnt a similar system in the great pyramid?

interesting

Seeing a lot of contrarians in this thread who just don't like that the Middle East had literally cool tech before America... pardon, before the people who stole America from the Americas, had literally cool tech.

Probs they are gonna call this thing "weapon of mass destruction" as a pretense for the next Yearly Oil Extraction invasion, conveniently ignoring that from an environmental perspective """modern""" AC is over twelve hundred times the WMD Iranian Air Conditioners ever were.

I kind of want to try this myself

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