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What's wrong with heavy AC/heating use during extreme weather events? You say runaway as if there's some sort of feedback loop. Insulating houses is balance be
by exporectomy 5y ago
What's wrong with heavy AC/heating use during extreme weather events? You say runaway as if there's some sort of feedback loop.
Insulating houses is balance between cost of insulating and cost of heating/cooling. It's no use spending more on insulation than you save in power use. So "as much as possible" is a wrong goal, as well as being obviously unachievable.
- Karrot_Kream 5y ago> What's wrong with heavy AC/heating use during extreme weather events? You say runaway as if there's some sort of feedback loop. Emissions is the feedback loop. I'm not talking about spending money. Using more heavy AC/heating during extreme weather events means we use more energy which makes it even harder to bring renewables online because as it is renewables aren't cutting it. Of course with money it makes no sense to spend money on insulation if you're only going to spend a fraction of that on AC costs for extreme events, but that's because externalities are not being passed on to emissions costs.
- exporectomy 5y agoExtreme events are rare by definition so I don't think the energy use is significant in exacerbating climate change.