
550 Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems
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The use of this technique can be traced back to 3000 BC when Iranian architects designed
some buildings to be cooled by natural resources only. In the nineteenth century, Wilkinson
[17] designed a barn for 148 cows where a 500 ft long underground passage was used for
cooling during the summertime. Since that time, a number of experimental and analytical
studies of this technique have continued to appear in the literature [18–20]. Goswami and
Dhaliwal [21] have given a brief review of the literature as well as presented an analytical
solution to the problem of tra