Raymond Ferguson

Thanks 😊  I'll check that out and I've read the replies now. Sorry I've been away from the forum for a little while and I've never been super active here.

Phil Stevens wrote:The best way to find out if the area is dry enough for swamp coolers is to look around, especially in older neighbourhoods, and see if houses have them. I know they're viable in West Texas, but once you get to the hill country I think it's too humid.

What about a design like the Persian system that takes incoming air underground to shed some of its heat? Or if you're up for more engineering and don't mind energy dependencies, using a water loop sinking in a geothermal well with a heat exchanger?

How would I get it further underground? Would pipes work and I've never designed one before it was just the diagram I found online on how they work.

I was wondering is this the correct forum for evaporative cooling?

I'm wanting to make a Persian wind catcher I've  been interested in for a while but my family informed me it's too humid here for swamp coolers and that evaporative cooling wouldn't work.

Is there a way to passively dehumidify the air as it comes into the wind catcher so that way it cools down as it goes over the pool of water?

Riona Abhainn wrote:Oh my goodness that makes a lot of sense!

 I was thinking it could be put in the bottom of a Persian windcatcher system to keep it cool.

I saw an instructable on how to make a mini peat bog and I was wondering if anyone has done one to store perishable foods in wooden containers like back in ancient times in Scotland and ireland?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_butter#:~:text=Bog%20butter%20is%20an%20ancient,the%20Royal%20Irish%20Academy%2C%201857


https://www.instructables.com/Artificial-Peat-for-Carnivorous-Plants/

Cool video ^_^

Thanks everyone I read the comments but haven't watched the video yet but will ^_^

Ok thanks I don't know much about trees and how soft their wood is. I just recently got a rotary tool and wanted to use it for wood and stone carving.

I have access to native texas trees so I doubt I have any of the specific types used in Europe.  Would mesquite trees work? They are really hard wood so should they last?

I'm in Central Texas. Is there any native trees that I can harvest for the wood? I was planning on doing English style with leather upper part.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clog_(British)