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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 pro
by 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 agoAnd shutters on your windows that actually close and block out the sun. One day the USA will adopt such technology.
- yamtaddle 3y agoThe 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....