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> At those figures, it would add about a third to my (UK) house's electricity bill. If you lived somewhere where you needed that much cooling you wouldn't have
by jefftk 7y ago
> At those figures, it would add about a third to my (UK) house's electricity bill.
If you lived somewhere where you needed that much cooling you wouldn't have a heating bill, though.
- pwinnski 7y agoDallas begs to differ!
- jefftk 7y agoThere are many cities that get about as cold as Dallas where historically people haven't heated their buildings beyond the incidental heat you get from living and cooking, but that does require you to be ok with your house getting pretty chilly occasionally. Still, as long as your house is reasonably well insulated heating bills in Dallas are very low and only a few months per year, right?
- pwinnski 7y agoI guess I wouldn't know. Only a few months, yes, but my heating bill is always higher than my cooling bill. I think the difference is that electricity is cheaper than gas, and my heating at various houses and apartments has always been gas? Not sure. Last couple of years I've switched to using a radiant heater that's in whatever room I'm in, and that has helped.
- jdmichal 7y agoInteresting... It does not get very cold here in Florida, but we still typically have heat pumps installed with our ACs. Which are much more efficient than burning gas or electricity for 1:1 BTUs.
- aries1980 7y agoDepending on the property's energy efficiency, in most of the continental European countries you'd need both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_average_temperature#Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_average_temp...
- jefftk 7y agoThey're describing a very powerful (and hence expensive to operate) AC system. I don't see anywhere on your list that you'd need that much cooling except maybe Nicosia and Athens, and there you don't need heating.
- aries1980 7y agoIn my first 31 years, I lived in a socialist Panelház / Platten Bau buildings. These have such a poor wall insulation (windows are usually double-glazed), on Summer nights even in night you have 25-28C, 33-35 in daytime. Most of my neighbours use their balcony to host the external unit of an AC, so they can maintain a nice 20-25 depending on the time of the day. Because there are no sliding windows because of the poor insulation, mobile ACs are not an option.