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[โ€“] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Partially buried housing (ground cooling effect)

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    On this same note, insulation in general. We can only make something so strong, conductive, heat-resistant, light or hard, so we've internalised the expectation that there's always practical limits. But insulative? There just isn't one. That means that with an arbitrarily small source of energy - body heat is not only possible but typical - you can overcome unlimited external coldness. We've being doing this since before we were human, by many definitions.

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