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[-] Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

No, I'm being genuine. It's theoretical and all, but if you were to put up a windmill in the same spot instead of a tower, it's possible traditional air conditioners would be able to cool the building to the same degree while also providing surplus electricity. It's also possible that you wouldn't, and I don't know the answer. It would also be interesting to compare it in different ways as well, like rather than asking "If a windmill was here" we could ask "The energy removed from the wind by the tower", because that would indicate scalability problems if one windmill was indeed able to cool one building, but maybe 100 wouldn't be able to cool 100. All hypothetical, but air conditioners/heat pumps are actually very efficient, so it's possible an active design could be more efficient than a passive one in this situation. At least, until someone does the math

[-] hamid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Another thing to note, to your point, is that a windmill breaks down and requires energy to repair. These wind towers in Yazd are still there and doing the same thing from hundreds of years ago

[-] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Very true. The best machines have the fewest moving parts

[-] Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

True, and it wasn't meant as an attack at all, just a question out of curiosity. The towers are super cool

[-] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, I have no idea. The "probably(?)" in my comment should have been a "maybe," probably maybe.

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