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yeah if you don't have heating (wood, pellets, gas, fossil, electric, whatever) you can't live in that climate. its, like, a thing.
but its way easier to heat a thing and keep it warm than cool a thing.
huh. I was just looking at air conditioners being really inefficient and it being really hard to keep a thing cool passively because all the stuff we do/have makes heat nowadays.
It's easy to passively cool things, as long as you're okay getting them wet :)
me? yes. my living space? less.