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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:30 PM, SJC wrote:

>  Probably his most creative
> item is a subterranean tube into the house for cooling, and that's not
> going to be something everybody here could do.

A word of caution: I have long considered doing this but have not thus  
far because I've not found that anyone has designed a way to keep  
undesirable molds and other bad stuff from growing inside such a tube.  
Legionnaire's Disease is of the sort of respiratory problems that can  
develop from breathing intake air in a building where ductwork is  
difficult or impossible to clean. The problem is moisture over a long  
period of time. Perhaps up in Maine the lower ground temperature would  
ameliorate the issue.

I still dream of such a system.

Thanks for the good, informative post, Susan Jane.