[Cob] cooling towers

[Peter Kaulback]

I am ignorant of what states make up the "deep south" but I do know that 
the site that hosted that article is located in Tennessee, is this in 
the "deep south"?

We get that lovely humidity here in the great lakes too, makes for great 
bread baking in the summer :)

Peter Kaulback, curious in Ontario

Wesley Sandel wrote:
> Well, you might have had Native Americans using the venturi design in
> Florida, but cooling towers are virtually useless anywhere in the deep south
> because the humidity stays above 90%. All you'll get with a cooling tower is
> really, really damp. And if you don't have AC there's already mold growing
> on your shoes. As near as I can tell the only ways to make things
> comfortable in the South are 1) reduce the humidity, 2) build really
> thermally efficiently and you only have to run the AC minimally, 3) have a
> lot of windows and doors (and, ideally, a wrap around screen porch and 14
> foot ceilings) and pray for a breeze. It's no accident that the population
> boom in the south didn't get started until the invention of AC.
> 
> You can also just get acclimated.
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