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It's a global phenomenon now. What surprised me was how few households have air conditioning in Europe. Hard times.
by formerkrogemp 4y ago
It's a global phenomenon now. What surprised me was how few households have air conditioning in Europe. Hard times.
- tiagod 4y agoAlmost nobody in portugal has AC. We just close all the windows and blinds down and stay inside during the hours of most heat, and wait until it gets cooler.
- barbazoo 4y agoThose outside blinds... I miss those.
- tiagod 4y agoI can't imagine life in the summer without them, and I live in Lisbon. We hit 41.5 last week, some places in the country got to 47. That's going to kill a lot of people, with or without blinds and closed windows.
- sebazzz 4y agoAnd white painted houses. First order of business is keeping the heat out, after that you might get started thinking about removing heat.
- zeruch 4y agoMost home in Portugal haven't needed AC. That's the underlying point.
- sammalloy 4y ago> What surprised me was how few households have air conditioning in Europe. It’s been reported on for years, and it’s not just Europe. In Hawaii, for example, most places didn’t have AC, and didn’t really need it until the 2010s, when the weather noticeably changed. Now, there’s entire sides of the islands, particularly leeward, where AC companies are working 24/7 on installation projects in buildings that haven’t had AC for the previous 20-30 years. Same is true for California, where people are putting AC in for the first time in homes that were built in the 1960s and didn’t need it before.
- pengaru 4y agoI sure hope Hawaii has pivoted onto solar to meet those power demands. Last I checked Hawaii's energy needs were all met via imported fossil fuels. It's why the CoL is so high there. But that was well over a decade ago.
- nathants 4y agomassive solar farm going in on the big island east of waikoloa. not sure about the other islands.