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>Aside from the limited water, there's the total dependence on air conditioning running headlong into the urban heat island and a warming climate. And everyone
by pathseeker 8y ago
>Aside from the limited water, there's the total dependence on air conditioning running headlong into the urban heat island and a warming climate.
And everyone in the north has a total dependence on heat. Solar panels are viable in the desert so it's easy to have self-sustaining houses when it comes to A/C.
- gascan 8y agoThe more A/C in use, the hotter the city gets, exacerbating the urban heat island. And even if Arizona used exclusively solar (which it doesn't), the climate is still on a warming pattern. Also, energy trapped by black solar panels & released by A/C is a net increase in heat into the city, compared to reflecting that energy off a high albedo surface, such as a metal or white roof, or the unmolested desert itself.