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If you like this story, I recommend reading How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World. Its a quick read and very interesting. And, yes, "col
by callmeed 9y ago
If you like this story, I recommend reading How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World. Its a quick read and very interesting. And, yes, "cold" is one of the six.
https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Got-Now-Innovations/dp/1594633932 https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Got-Now-Innovations/dp/1594633...
- LeoPanthera 9y agoThe book is based on a PBS/BBC TV show which is also excellent. It's on the Amazon, Google, and Microsoft video stores, and questionably legal copies are also on YouTube.
- fuckemem 9y ago"cold" is quite broad though. That would cover refrigeration/ freezing which would be a much bigger impact than air con.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoRefrigeration allows you to preserve any kind of food and eat it at any time of year. It allows food to be shipped in to remote locations, which is important. Air conditioning directly lets people live where they otherwise couldn't; it doesn't seem obvious that refrigeration is larger-impact.
- tormeh 9y agoThey're literally the same thing. Only difference is how big the fridge is and how much power you dedicate.
- fuckemem 9y agoWith the title "The far-reaching effects of air conditioning" I didn't immediately think "Yup ... that's handy: frozen peas" even though the technology underlying them is the same.
- callmeed 9y agoThe chapter covers both. And they impact everything from food to politics.