About one in every 15 homes is thought to have high levels of radon. The highest concentration of radon tends to be found in the basement or on the first floor.
I was aware of radon being a thing, especially since I live in an area with a lot of granite in the soil, but since I currently have a vented crawlspace, I wasn’t worried too much. Thank you for reminding me that I need to think about it again if/when I close off the vents and encapsulate!
Honestly for more of these industrial server and cloud computing centers they should be buried to take advantage of cooler temperatures and save money on ac.
It’s a good plan.
Me: I want to live in a Hobbit-hole!
Mom: we have a Hobbit-hole at home.
Home:
Your link does make me want to dig out my basement some more though, NGL.
Test for radon first:
I was aware of radon being a thing, especially since I live in an area with a lot of granite in the soil, but since I currently have a vented crawlspace, I wasn’t worried too much. Thank you for reminding me that I need to think about it again if/when I close off the vents and encapsulate!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/style/tiktok-tunnel-girl.html paywall free
Honestly for more of these industrial server and cloud computing centers they should be buried to take advantage of cooler temperatures and save money on ac.
Insulation keeps the heat from outside from coming inside, but it’s not much help when you’re generating the heat inside yourself
Microsoft experimented with putting a datacenter underwater and saw some encouraging results.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/