This $100 Black Chimney Cools Your Entire House For FREE. Why Did The HVAC Industry Bury It?
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Your attic right now is sitting at 140–150°F. You're paying hundreds of dollars a year — sometimes thousands — to fight that heat with a compressor that costs $10,000 to install and breaks down every few years.
What if the same sun that's cooking your house could cool it instead?
In this video I break down a technology that's been around for over 2,000 years, was used by ancient Persian and Roman engineers, and is still being used in award-winning buildings in Europe right now. It requires no electricity, no moving parts, and no maintenance. You can build a working version for around $100 in a single weekend.
We'll cover exactly how it works, what the research actually says about how much it cools, where it works best, where it struggles, the mistakes people make that kill the performance, and how to build one yourself from scratch with basic tools and hardware store materials.
This isn't a concept or a theory. It's been metered, published, and proven in real buildings. The only reason you've never heard of it is that nobody selling equipment makes money when the sun does the work for free.
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Center of living space is a cedar closet and above that will be our hvac system. Which will be a mini split ducted system. Above that area will be vent in the cathedral always open. And in the ridge thru roof but under the hay barn layer will be an electric hatch to open and draft when we desire. If we open the space from the outdoor area into the living area, the cooling tubes will draft thru the whole house. Or we can use the windows on the house for intake. Either way. Another set of manual vents will be at the north side of the outdoor roof to pull air out the far side of that room from the cooling tubes. We're hoping this all works the way we think it will. We are absolutely not engineers or designers. Just sucking up information anywhere we can to make this work.
Thank you for citing the research in different parts of the world.
Your video is not enough for it still lack lot of things if i have to build one for me.
I still need more research, study and consultation.
It is not that easy knowing that its presence is not normal on house design.
This $100 Black Chimney Cools Your Entire House For FREE. Why Did The HVAC Industry Bury It?
Candlelight Archives
66,303 views
Your attic right now is sitting at 140–150°F. You're paying hundreds of dollars a year — sometimes thousands — to fight that heat with a compressor that costs $10,000 to install and breaks down every few years.
What if the same sun that's cooking your house could cool it instead?
In this video I break down a technology that's been around for over 2,000 years, was used by ancient Persian and Roman engineers, and is still being used in award-winning buildings in Europe right now. It requires no electricity, no moving parts, and no maintenance. You can build a working version for around $100 in a single weekend.
We'll cover exactly how it works, what the research actually says about how much it cools, where it works best, where it struggles, the mistakes people make that kill the performance, and how to build one yourself from scratch with basic tools and hardware store materials.
This isn't a concept or a theory. It's been metered, published, and proven in real buildings. The only reason you've never heard of it is that nobody selling equipment makes money when the sun does the work for free.