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Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 3:19:33 GMT
There are two main reasons for this a lack of ventilation which can allow moisture from cooking showering and breathing to condense onto a caves cool walls and groundwater if underground homes are built near the water table. In Coober Pedy its not just homes that are underground there are subterranean restaurants shops motels and even a Serbian Orthodox Church Credit Getty Images In Coober Pedy its not just homes that are underground there are subterranean restaurants shops motels and even a Serbian Orthodox Church Credit Getty Images. Take the Hazan Caves in Israel a complex network of underground hideouts built by Jewish people avoiding persecution by the Romans in the nd Century AD complete with olive presses Mobile App Development Service kitchens halls water reservoirs and a columbarium for storing funerary urns. Just m ft into the cave the temperature drops significantly compared to outside but the humidity also leaps from just to double this level. This may be partly because the cave system is built into porous rock in a lowland area where there tends to be more groundwater. With narrow passageways and limited entrances it also has poor air flow. CARBON COUNT The emissions from travel it took to report this story were kg CO. The digital emissions from this story are an estimated .g to .g CO per page view. Find out more about how we calculated this figure here on m ft of porous sandstone conditions are arid even underground. Its very very dry here says Wright.
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