Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat

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[–] 14 points 3 months ago (16 children)

so you're making the rest of us hotter >:(

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I don't get the downvotes when you're literally correct.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Air conditioning is literally just moving heat from one space to another even at scale the air conditioning from homes is not enough to make any meaningful difference.

    Now if we want to get pedantic the stress that it puts on electrical grids that are not decarbonized and have to fire up natural gas and coal plants harder sure it is technically making everything else hotter

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Dunno about your country but mine is far from 100% reneable

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

    You can always plant more trees, paint all the buildings brighter colors, live underground, or move north?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cooling

    PDRC can be contrasted with conventional compression-based cooling systems (e.g., air conditioners) that consume substantial amounts of energy, have a net heating effect (heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors), require ready access to electric power and often employ coolants that deplete the ozone layer or have a strong greenhouse effect.

    Yikes.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors

    Yeah by like 400W which is peanuts compared to what the sun is doing

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Also: if a big box store with high ceilings is going to cool the entire building to 68F, I'm not going to fret over cooling my modestly-sized home.

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