We dig into practical off-grid heating and cooling strategies, old-school home designs, passive cooling, wood heat, thermal mass, ventilation, insulation, earth-sheltered construction, and simple ways to make your home more comfortable when electricity isn’t available.
We cover:
• How older homes used high ceilings, transoms, and double-hung windows to move heat
• Whole-house fans, ceiling fans, and low-power ventilation
• Solar-powered exhaust fans
• Night flushing — bringing cool air in at night and closing the house during the heat of the day
• Awnings, shutters, shade, and keeping sunlight off your windows
• White and light-colored exterior surfaces for reducing heat gain
• Adobe, masonry, earth, and thermal mass
• Insulation and slowing temperature changes inside the home
• Summer kitchens and keeping cooking heat outside
• Wood stoves for grid-down heating
• Using stone and brick to store and release heat
• Heating the room you actually live in instead of the entire house
• Hot water bottles, curtains, blankets, and other old-school solutions
• Earth tubes and using the relatively stable temperature of the ground
• Why adapting your habits can be just as important as adding more equipment
Preparedness isn’t just about owning a generator or storing more fuel. It’s about designing your home and lifestyle so that losing one system doesn’t immediately become an emergency.
If the electrical grid went down during a 100-degree summer day or a freezing winter night, how long would your house remain livable?
That’s the question we’re tackling in this episode.
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