weird thoughts i have:
all of Rome existed without refrigeration.
Discussion
I'm having that thought now too.
Yes but they had gardens and salt and lard
No active refrigeration but they did have some really awesome cold stores and cellars 😁
even saw something about chilling walls with aqueducts once, liquid cooling!
its not a but.
its a how.
i usually think in how.
Yes, how the heck did they figure out home liquid cooling
i would say fairly easily actually. running water is generally cooler than surface temperatures, and stores energy. whether heat, or cool. sitting on a cool river stone on a sunny day is all it would take to spark that idea. 💡
Ok but no one else was running water through their city like that! One thing to have the idea, another to say yep not only will we run the water, we'll do it close enough to walls so that they're cooler
Not just Romans, many ancient civilisations used water and underground chambers for refrigeration. It's amazing how much we've forgotten with the ease of use of electricity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/ancient-advanced-technology-021700
weird thoughts I have:
God never made any machines.
Not refrigeration, but root cellars are ancient tech that works well. I remember as a youngster having to take a rickety ladder 15 feet underground to get buckets of potatoes and carrots.
Another cool old tech, pot in pot evaporative coolers. I've rabbit holed this particular topic before. This has been in use by our ancestors for ~5000 years.
If you dig a deep enough hole, you get a type of refrigeration.