I lived in my sister’s basement for a few years and during the summer it was hot as hell upstairs but in the basement it was totally fine.
Then I moved into a shed in my mom’s backyard and the summer was brutal. We are talking about so hot that I would buy blocks of ice and put them in a bucket and sit with my feet in that all day.
I always had the idea of digging a hole and running like a 12 inch pipe in a circle that went as far down as I could dig and a good commercial grade fan that would pull air in push it way down into the ground and then dump it into my shack. The idea being that the air would cool while underground.
And a thing today with my fishtank is why I even remembered this idea. I was a bit concerned that my fish were on the bottom of the tank so much. It just started a few days ago. I noticed it after I did a 20% water change. So I thought maybe I fucked the water or something. But I think I sourced the real problem.
http://i.imgur.com/0xUsNFS.png
Sooo. I checked and the tank was up to 84º.. Yikes. So I ran the hoses for the air pumps through blocks of ice and the temp dropped pretty fast ind my fishies were back to normal. I got the temp in the tank down about 6º in a few hours.
I have water bottles in the freezer now. In the morning I will drop one in the tank to keep the tank cool.