You don’t have to wonder about what the Lemmy devs do and don’t know. They aren’t cloistered or unreachable, you can just join matrix room and talk to them nearly at any time.
The main thing halting progress on the code is time and money. The devs are under strain from the amount of fixes and issues from the sudden burst in lemmy users so they are in an operational mode that isn’t ideal. For my part I’m one of the monthly contributors to the project; Lemmy is community developed software, not corporate.
You can literally go there and witness these for yourself. It works. People live in Yazd right now in these old buildings. Newer constructions have air conditioning because building huge thermal mass retaining walls out of mud bricks is expensive. They keep ice all winter in buildings there from a thousand years ago cooled like this.
Another thing to note, to your point, is that a windmill breaks down and requires energy to repair. These wind towers in Yazd are still there and doing the same thing from hundreds of years ago
LOL Your comment makes it seem like you don’t think that it couldn’t possibly work, except that these things are still there and you can go visit them right now and feel how cool it is inside the buildings.
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What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)
For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
why do & ampersands never display properly in titles?
but work in body text &
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Ancient Iran had air conditioning (lemmy.world)