I'm curious if anyone came to homesteading from a traditional career. How did you start? How much did land cost you? What are your monthly costs and do you have an income that can sustain them?
I'm curious if anyone came to homesteading from a traditional career. How did you start? How much did land cost you? What are your monthly costs and do you have an income that can sustain them?
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bluemoon@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y
i haven't started but my grandpa told me about making a fridge without electricity, like houses here used to have before electricity & cars came during the middle of the 1900-hundreds.
the concept is a large pipe going between the fridge-room, deeper below the ground and out several meters away from it, then up into the air in a stand-alone chimney. insect-nets on both sides of the pipe.
concept is: when the air is hot the earth deeper below cool. air that travels through the pipe turns cool and flows into the space.
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
These are called "earth tubes" or "ground-coupled heat exchangers" and they work because the ground below frost line maintains a constant ~55°F (13°C) year round - super efficent for passive cooling in summer without needing electricity, tho you gotta watch for condensation/mold issues.