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There is a difference between sunny and hot. Cupertino has plenty of sunshine, but is not hot so doesn't require a ton of energy for cooling (the building doesn
by jonknee 9y ago
There is a difference between sunny and hot. Cupertino has plenty of sunshine, but is not hot so doesn't require a ton of energy for cooling (the building doesn't even have AC!). If they were able to pull this off in say, Phoenix, it would be a lot more of a cost savings.
> Jobs hated air-conditioning and especially loathed fans. (He vigilantly tried to keep them out of his computers.) But he also didn’t want people opening windows, so he insisted on natural ventilation, a building that breathes just like the people who work inside it.
- djtriptych 9y agoInteresting. Still, the sunshine to energy need ratio in Cupertino seems to support low energy costs. Redwood City, just to the north, is famous for having the "best climate in the world" by WW2 era gov't test.
- marze 9y agoThe article mentioned in-floor heating/cooling hydronic loops.