Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat

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[–] 130 points 3 months ago (39 children)
  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (38 children)

    Shit, really? Wow, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to find out the rest.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (37 children)

    The electricity bill I'm guessing.

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  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago (36 children)

    No, it's a split ac, the other half is literally out of the picture(hopefully out of tne house)

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

    Have you tried not being hot?

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

    Billionaires who want to boil the proles alive hate this one trick

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I'm going to leave this running and open the Windows for a little while. Hope that helps all you folks out there.

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

    They make my 2 fav things: air conditioners and the lancer evo final

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    [–] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    So you volunteer to fund one for me and convince my landlord and the mayor to allows its installation ?

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Here in the USA, south Mississippi, it's fucking hot as hell as well!

    And unfortunately, we're borrowing my mom's car for now, waiting for a part we ordered for the truck to come in. Mom's car has 4 windows, but only the front passenger window goes down, and no air conditioner.. 🥵

    I've taken to bringing a cooler with us, with bare minimum of 2 bottles of frozen fresh water, plus 2 bottles of frozen saturated saltwater.

    Why frozen salt water? Well it's definitely not for drinking, that's for sure. But frozen saltwater freezes at like -10⁰C, which makes them excellent ice packs to keep things in the cooler extra cold for around 6 hours or so...

    Stay cool out there everybody!

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

    I think the salt is actually worse for keeping thing cool longer.

    Most of the cooling capacity of the ice is in phase change from solid to liquid. The salt is moving it to -10 which means bigger gap from outside temperature. So the cold escapes quicker.

    If you use normal water it will climb to 0 faster, but stay there longer.

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    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Man I'd love to have a spare £850 too

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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 (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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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I have just one thing to say: 🖕

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

    Hey one of you finally realize that air conditioning is necessary to sleep at night when it gets really hot, a problem which is only going to continue to grow worse thanks to climate change. At least until the ocean conveyor breaks completely and y'all start freezing your balls off like you live in Siberia.

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

    I installed both AC and solar panels when heat got too dangerous for my kids.

    Yes, many everyday problems can be solved with money, money were literally invented for that exact purpose. Other problems can be solved with time, for example - trees need a fuckton of time to grow, but I still replaced most of the grass in my garden with trees and bushes. I will most likely never rest under their shade in my life, but is that really important to see the benefits fast?

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately I bought a portable unit for my room. My reasoning, rooms gets to 38c and sleepless nights could mean sleeping through alarms, future health concerns and also, this heat won't be going down any time soon.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    wow a shocking amount of people here have no idea how AC works

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Shit why didn't I think of that

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (9 children)
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