Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat

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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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