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You use no heating or cooling? That's unusual. Approximate latitude? I spent 37 years largely without A/C, northern climate usually being below preferred room
by ctdonath 9y ago
You use no heating or cooling? That's unusual. Approximate latitude?
I spent 37 years largely without A/C, northern climate usually being below preferred room temperature. Heating, however, was essential. Moving south, both are surprisingly necessary as the area, while quite temperate on average, has annual temperature swings from about 25°F to 105°F - requiring HVAC.
Unless you're in an unusual situation, like high desert in a remarkably well-insulated home, I suspect HVAC is so prevalent in your life you've completely forgotten it's there out of familiarity. Mad King Ludwig of Neuchwuanstein Castle, however, would find much of the year uncomfortably cold - except that he'd completely forgotten it's there out of familiarity.
- zanny 9y agoWhy would the Mad King not have all the fireplaces he could want, considering he was a king? Traditionally heating was easier to come across than cooling, despite cooling taking less energy to have happen.
- TheDanielD 9y agoA fair amount of the world has no "need" for heating or air conditioning. Mediterranean climates and all of Latin America qualify here, as does much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. In fact, the only place where HVAC would be a "need" would be super cold climates, or super hot climates. Everything else is tolerable, just not comfortable. Plenty of places are hot, but people lived there just fine before we had electricity or any fancy cooling tech.
- barrkel 9y agoI grew up in a 200 year old cottage in the Irish countryside, the only heating was a fireplace (one, for the whole cottage). It wasn't a problem at all. And a monarch would have more options for heating.