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>Heating/cooling office buildings might be more efficient than everyone doing this to their homes On the flipside, how many people even have climate-controlled
by snickerbockers 3y ago
>Heating/cooling office buildings might be more efficient than everyone doing this to their homes
On the flipside, how many people even have climate-controlled homes year-round? When I used to live in California, air-conditioning was a rare and valuable treasure in a $3k/month apartment. I think I've heard euros claim they don't have air conditioning, too.
- vladvasiliu 3y ago> I think I've heard euros claim they don't have air conditioning, too. This. I don't know about Italy, Spain, and the like, but here in Paris, people mostly don't have A/C in their homes, but basically every office does. So yeah, carting people to the office and back consumes energy, then you have to consume some more to keep them cool. Bonus points for an impossible number of people burning gas in their cars while waiting around on gridlocked highways and polluting the air. At least public transit uses (mostly) nuclear power here.
- btilly 3y agoDepends where you live. In Southern California, air conditioning is extremely common. Either central or window units. Go up to the Bay area, and I'd think it was fairly rare.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> When I used to live in California, air-conditioning was a rare and valuable treasure in a $3k/month apartment. In the mild climates of the Bay Area and similar places, sure, but not, at least in the last half century or so, in the LA Basin and the Central Valley.