Why Medieval Castles Stayed Warm At -40°F While Your $400K House Freezes скачать в хорошем качестве

Why Medieval Castles Stayed Warm At -40°F While Your $400K House Freezes

Your power goes out for twelve hours in winter. Inside temperature drops to 45°F. You're wearing three coats indoors and can see your breath. Meanwhile, medieval castle Great Halls maintained 65°F at -20°F outside with no electricity, no furnace, no thermostat. In 1347, Warwick Castle kept hundreds of people comfortably warm through England's coldest winter on record while people outside froze to death in poorly built homes. How is this possible? What did medieval builders understand about heat that we've completely forgotten? The problem isn't your heater. It's that modern homes are designed to bleed heat for maximum HVAC industry profit. Medieval builders had three thermal secrets: 🏰 WHAT YOU CAN DO: • Build with concrete/stone thermal mass walls • Add stone accent walls to existing homes • Install thermal curtains and airlocks • Find architects trained in passive house design ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Why Your Modern Home Freezes 1:20 Secret #1: Thermal Mass Engineering 3:20 Secret #2: Passive Airflow Design 5:20 Secret #3: Why Efficiency Was Abandoned 6:40 Modern Passive House Solutions 7:28 What You Can Do Today 📚 SOURCES: • Warwick Castle historical thermal records – British Heritage Archives • Passive House Institute – Thermal Mass Research • Building Physics textbook – MIT Architecture Department • Medieval Engineering Guild Records – Oxford Bodleian Library 🎬 WATCH NEXT: • Why Medieval Stone Buildings Stand 1000 Years But Yours Crack In 20 • Why Medieval Iron Tools Last 800 Years But Yours Rust In Months 💬 What's your winter heating bill? Share below! 🔔 Subscribe for more forgotten architectural wisdom #medievalcastles #passivehouse #thermalmass #energyefficiency #NaturalHeating #sustainableliving #ancestralcraft #medievalarchitecture #buildingscience #offgrid #homesteading #energyindependence #passivedesign #greenbuilding #constructionsecrets