This Is How We Cool Our House Without AC (The Mexican Way)

You can cool a house with a pipe in the ground. No compressor. No refrigerant. No capacitor that dies in August. Nothing spinning on the side of your house, and no meter spinning inside the wall while it does it. Seventy-four degrees of air coming up out of the dirt on a ninety-six degree afternoon. It has a name — they call it a Canadian well — and it is real, and it is old. Today I show you exactly how one gets built, what the pipe and fittings actually cost at the yard, and the one thing almost nobody who films these will tell you: the thing that decides whether it cools your house, or grows a mold farm under your yard and pipes it into the room where your family sleeps. Because there is a version of this that is close to free air conditioning for the rest of your life. And there is a version that is a mistake you sleep in. The difference is TWO NUMBERS you can look up tonight, for free, on the phone in your hand.