By placing the fire and chimney on opposite sides of the house and constructing a tunnel between them, heat is pulled through the tunnel, heating the floors and helping distribute heat more evenly.

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    Note: caused a significant number of house fires and carbon monoxide poisoning.

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      1 year ago

      I figured there were some issues like that, I think I’m more into the general idea than this specific execution

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        Radiant heat using pumped hot fluid (I think usually a water antifreeze mix in a closed system) in tubes attached to the underside of the floor, seems like the closest, safer mix. Could be reasonably solarpunk if the source of heat is good