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Maybe not? People could use things like blankets to stay warm and light things on fire for heat. I think they did this before electricity...a relatively new in

Maybe not? People could use things like blankets to stay warm and light things on fire for heat. I think they did this before electricity...a relatively new invention. What is the equivalent for cooling off that doesn't require electricity? In Phoenix, specifically...

fooker 3y ago
People have lived in hot and dry places without electricity for thousands of years. You drink a lot of water, don't go out in the sun, cover your body with proper clothes (counterintuitively), hang wet fabric in small ventilators, use hand fans, stay in a basement/underground/lower floors of a building, cover your roof with thick organic material.
- Scoundreller 3y ago
  And shutters on your windows that actually close and block out the sun. One day the USA will adopt such technology.
  - yamtaddle 3y ago
    The vast majority of the extant housing in the US was built for a world with cheap energy and air conditioning. Take away the AC and it needs extensive refitting to even be kinda habitable. [EDIT] OK, that's overstating it in the North. Newer houses & apartments sans AC up there would just mean a couple dozen nights per year sleeping outside, and having to be way more diligent about fighting mold and mildew. Tolerable, but not great. The South, though....
nradov 3y ago
Texans literally froze to death during a utility outage in 2021. Most modern homes have no place to light a fire for heat, and blankets only do so much. https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/great-texas-freeze-killed-nearly-3-times-more-people-than-hurricane-harvey https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/great-texas-freez...
- cozzyd 3y ago
  I've slept in a tent on the Greenland ice sheet. If you have proper bedding, it's fine... (Maybe people in Texas don't have thick blankets or sleeping bags, and presumably live in homes with substandard insulation?)

fooker 3y ago

People have lived in hot and dry places without electricity for thousands of years. You drink a lot of water, don't go out in the sun, cover your body with proper clothes (counterintuitively), hang wet fabric in small ventilators, use hand fans, stay in a basement/underground/lower floors of a building, cover your roof with thick organic material.

Scoundreller 3y ago
And shutters on your windows that actually close and block out the sun. One day the USA will adopt such technology.
- yamtaddle 3y ago
  The vast majority of the extant housing in the US was built for a world with cheap energy and air conditioning. Take away the AC and it needs extensive refitting to even be kinda habitable. [EDIT] OK, that's overstating it in the North. Newer houses & apartments sans AC up there would just mean a couple dozen nights per year sleeping outside, and having to be way more diligent about fighting mold and mildew. Tolerable, but not great. The South, though....

nradov 3y ago

Texans literally froze to death during a utility outage in 2021. Most modern homes have no place to light a fire for heat, and blankets only do so much. https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/great-texas-freeze-killed-nearly-3-times-more-people-than-hurricane-harvey https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/great-texas-freez...

cozzyd 3y ago
I've slept in a tent on the Greenland ice sheet. If you have proper bedding, it's fine... (Maybe people in Texas don't have thick blankets or sleeping bags, and presumably live in homes with substandard insulation?)