Thanks for your excellent and highly appreciated reply, it warms my heart to read this while providing for more glimmers of hope in our humanity's future. I guess you live in a fairly warm and dry moderate to hot climate then, from what I am assuming based on your reply? Namaste :)
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We're in Arlington, Texas, and weather is fairly erratic here. Last year we got so much rain that we had to dig trenches throughout the garden to divert the floods from drowning our plants, but this year was relatively dry. Many summer days get over 100 degrees F, and many winter days drop below freezing. It's been cold this week. In a few days the weather is forecasted to drop a whole 50 degrees in one day! We learn to adapt.
As for heat in winter, we have an indoor wood burning stove to heat the main rooms of the house. We put rocks on the stove to heat up in the evening, then we wrap them in wool or towels and take them to bed. Hot rocks are one of my favorite treats of the year; it is absolute heaven to sleep outside in crispy cold air but to stay all warm and snuggly under the covers all night long!
Have you considered using a spiral of pipes either filled with water and propylene glycol, or oil and have it passover the heat of your stove? This way, the fluid moves with the pressure of the heat toward the cold, where the main spiral center is, and you have radiating heat rising to the surface heating the inside of your home. some people in yurts use a bed build over the actual stove which is casted in a mound of dirt hardened into some sort of concrete. I also have my own "hard-top" tent for the cold winters here, and greatly enjoy the cool night sleep. I simply LOVe fresh air! Thanks for your reply, stay warm, keep your smile, thrive on and namaste :)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223771102_Chinese_kang_as_a_domestic_heating_system_in_rural_northern_China-A_review
Cool, sounds like an effective solution! Do you have any pictures of these yurt stove beds?