OFF GRID No Electricity Air Conditioning in the Desert | Making a Solar Chimney

I hear rammed earth walls the right thickness will cool in the day and warm at night. Each slow moving wave of heat and cool arrives for the interior at the right time. We live in central Georgia where night time cooling is not enough, so an above ground earth bermed home would make better sense.

Don't you have "whirlybirds". It would have probably been cheaper. Almost all homes here in Qld Aus use "whirlybirds.

What if you put an ice cooler air conditioner blowing air in and just refill it with ice bottles daily ....

Actually, would have been nice if you had a thermostat in the shed and over a couple days showed outside vs inside temps, then install this and show the same data over the next few days. There is a theory that hot air doesn't actually rise, it is more that cold airs goes down and displaces hot air, sending it where the cold air is coming from. I really don't know one way or the other.

I have no doubt it will help out some what . Yah when I started watching y’all about a yr ago I’m thinking who’s this goofy srew ball . Lol y’all’s channel really grew on me & your a funny , smart & hard working fool Jim . & Jess your amazing also working hard to accomplish the goals . All positive energy your way .

You need an insulated ceiling to compliment the project

Did it work?

kindly post updates..

It has been 2 years, how does it work?

I wondered how you people kept cool in Mexico.

I have been watching your channel for about a year on my tv which does not give the option of subscribing. So i am sitting here on my laptop and I hit that subscribe button. You two are doing an EXCELLENT job on your property. Keep it up. The rewards will be amazing. You are reaping some of the rewards right now.

I live in an apartment in Denver but I remember growing up in the South where we did not have running water or indoor bathroom privliges. But my childhood was great and I wish I could get back out doing that and having a garden again. That is definitely the one thing I miss having - a garden. God Bless and have a great day!

interesting, i will be watching

You have a sort of James Taylor voice … I wonder if you are from the same part of the world as he?

It’s lovely to see your gratitude, you sound like a really good man buddy

If your inlet is not cooling enough, try barring a 8 in PVC pipe below the beat depth of the ground. In cold country its frost line. But, dents your in a desert it's the heat line. Your thermal chimney will draw the air down the pipe cooling it. Active g like a air conditioner.

Pls tell us how did the solar chimney worked

Want to use the concept to move air Thru some earth tubes in Florida

Cool. I would even paint the top of the cap black -- the metal can dissipate a lot of energy and will help even more with the convection.

I rarely comment because logging in is too troublesome. But I usually enjoy yalls videos and support what you are doing. Logged in to say what a lot of others have said. The next step would be to rent a trencher and lay pipe underground to get a cooler air supply. Some have said perforated. I would recommend against that. Just solid pipe. Corrugate metal may work well as a conductor, plus it has a lot of surface area. And is usually cheep, or surplus. May not fit the trench though. The deeper the better, Some people say you can get air flow at 55, I don't think that's reasonable, but 65-70 would still feel great in your area.

Two tips for when you pursue this. One, the pipe shouldn't be level. Since you are taking hot air from outside, and cooling it. There will be condensation. Even from dry air, and you don't want that in your pipe. So slop it away from your building. So it can condensate, and drain. then open to the ground at one point. Second tip, I saw one Earthship video where the intake pipe for a ground cooling tube was surrounded by herbs. The owner commented that it just slowly and steady draws the scents of those plants inside, 24/7 giving it a mild, pleasant smell. So maybe trench to your herb garden.

You should've just drilled larger bore holes because someone can brake in through those holes! But if your secure I guess your good but I would drill circular door nob holes

I wonder if it would have helped to dig a 6-7 foot deep (2 foot wide) trench about 60feet long from your north side outwards....then just bury some perforated 6 inch pipe underground to suck up all that subterranean cooler air? You could add a suction fan and maybe an appropriate micron air filter for not much more dollars if you really wanted.....that would probably add even cooler air (55-75F??) to the inside of your place?

Fun to watch

Is there a follow up video to this? Did it work? 🤞

I really enjoyed your upload. Funny and real. Subscribed. 👍👍

did it work?

Any updates on how this worked out? Is the shed drawing air through the door vents?

It will work, wish that houses did the same.

Ingenius. Simplicity is Perfection... 😃

I knew of an old house which was built with vent windows near the ceiling above the main windows and inlet vents near the floor, and in hot ass Texas weather you could sit inside that house and be reasonably comfortable in what otherwise would have been a hot box.

Bring air into underground tunnels / it cools the air / people of the desert do this / ?

No no noooooo pipe throw the bottom up

So if you buried your intake so that it drew air cooled by the ground, would that help? Your intake should be smaller than your exhaust btw. And nothing stops you from box framing a solar window to boost your temperatures on the exhaust above the roof. Plus, you can use the venturi principle to increase the exhaust flow. The solar window ventilates out through a pipe that fits over your vent/exhaust and if you have holes in the inner exhaust pipe it will make the exhaust match speeds with the solar thermal. The key is the outer solar heating pipe needs to move air faster than the inner one to make a difference.

dig a trench and put a pipe in the ground on the north side and then attach to the incoming vents on northside. Dig the trench about 4 ft under ground. This will draw cool air from ground.

It's just a hot air exhaust. They put "solar" on everything.

Oh my God bro we literally both started singing eye of the tiger at the exact same time on your video that was crazy

Thank you for sharing your knowledge brother

Better to build a stone house with basement.

Buddy just made a fan. Without electricity. This is exactly what I was looking for.

any update on how well it worked out?

Solar chimney?....we used to call that a vent

The concept is just! But the technique with wich you applied it is flawed!

Love it. Could you please tell me, almost 5 years after posting this video, did you monitor and measure the temperature difference before the solar chimney and after it? I'm doing a little research to try and find real life results of how much does a solar chimney cool a building/room down.

Cool if its possible

I would love to know what kind of cooling you got from that.

The right size hole saw would have made it easier

Thank you so much for sharing all this. As I am slowly working on my little off grid project you’ve been a wealth of knowledge and help.

Solar chiminy...hmmm..It just occured to me..put a square sided glass chiminy "surround" around the chiminy. Sun light heats air trapped between it and the metal pipe ...like a solar oven...thereby more pipe column heat INside air drawn up at faster rate! VOILA!

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