Robert Seeberger wrote:
> Yeah it is wierd.
> I think there are a lot of assumptions that went unmentioned, but really
> need to be examined as a part of this kind of discussion.
>
> In my part of Texas it normally doesnt get down to 32 F but for a few days a
> year.
> Another assumption I made was That there would be one large building housing
> everyone. In such a situation the upper floors would be cooking.
Well, if we're talking about a huge multi-story building, you don't have
to put any of it in Houston, do you? There's enough other parts of
Texas that if you're making the habitat for everyone a multi-story one,
you don't have to put any of it in Houston.
> I'd think you would also have to factor in the extreme high humidity here.
> It can easily be 80% in the middle of winter.
> And here in Houston we do use AC in the middle of winter, so there are lots
> of days when the heat load from humans is pretty obvious here where it might
> not be so in other climates.
> I have personally seen people heat a room up to miserable temperatures.
> I know cuz I was miserable and everyone else was til we went to another room
> and heated it up. It wasnt fun at all.
What would it be like if you put the huge building a lot further west?
Say, putting a chunk of it in the Panhandle, and spreading south from
there? I know that El Paso is pretty darn dry. (And it gets pretty
cool there at night.)
(Heck, even going as far to the coast as Austin is might help temper
things. My cousin who grew up in Galveston had problems adapting to
Austin when he moved here. Austin was just too *dry* for him, and he
may still need a vaporizer to humidify things when he's sleeping at
night. He sure did his first few months here....)
Julia
who wonders how tall (in terms of number of stories, anyway) the
building would have to be if we just built it over the entirety of
Kansas
