Timeline for How would a medieval city get cold drinks?
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 1:36 | comment | added | GregM | @Separatrix, keeping ice is about thermal mass, if you can generate sufficient thickness of ice it will not melt in a single day. If you are able to store more ice than can melt daily you'll not only increase the amount of ice you are storing but also improve your yield each day. My second paragraph and provided link detail how scaling up this simple concept to cool a home has been used for creating and storing significant quantities of ice for centuries. | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 9:06 | comment | added | a4android | @Separatrix For their houses, certainly, but the Iranians were able to make ice. While their houses may not have been able to make ice by themselves, ice should have been obtained from the ice houses. As I said, the answer can be improved -- by explaining this. | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 8:58 | comment | added | Separatrix | @a4android, it can't form ice but it can keep the building at a low enough temperature to maintain ice in the medium to long term | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 8:56 | comment | added | a4android | @L.Dutch If this ventilation system can form ice in its trenches, surely that can be used to cool drinks or am I missing something obvious? | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 8:54 | comment | added | a4android | Hi, GregM, welcome to Worldbuilding, please expand your answer to make the obvious point if you can form ice in the underground trenches this can cool drinks. This will improve your answer. | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 7:26 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Sep 25, 2017 at 7:17 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | The OP doesn't ask how to cool a house (which is what you answer). | |
| Sep 25, 2017 at 7:11 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 25, 2017 at 7:09 | history | answered | GregM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |