Wind catcher

This post is about wind catchers, a traditional architectural way to maintain air temperature low inside buildings commonly seen in the middle eastern countries. This is an awesome example of the creative talents that our ancestors have had.

This diagram shows how a wind catcher creates positive pressure on the windward side and negative pressure on the leeward side and how in doing so cool fresh air is pulled in and circulates the hot stale air out, it does a good job showing this by being very simple to read and shows just the basics of how the process works

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Wind catchers — an ancient technique to beat the heat — could help us once more in our quest for emissions-free cooling.

Natural ventilation systems rely on pressure differences to move fresh air through buildings - pressure differences can be caused by wind or the buoyancy effect created by temperature differences or differences in humidity. In either case, the size and placement of openings in the building is critical - useful to think of a natural ventilation system as a circuit, with equal consideration given to supply and exhaust. Wind causes a positive pressure on the windward side and a negative…

Wind Tower Interior

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From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. Now, it could come to our aid once again.

One of the main reasons for global warming is the burning of fossil fuels, natural gas, coal, etc which produces large amounts of greenhouse gases.....

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