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The issue there is a lot of homes throughout europe at the time had no air conditioning, just heaters. This included things like nursing homes. They were basi
by cogman10 3y ago
The issue there is a lot of homes throughout europe at the time had no air conditioning, just heaters. This included things like nursing homes.
They were basically relying on the fact that historically above 90F (32C) temperatures were unheard of.
Now it's so common that there's been a rush to install AC and heatpumps throughout.
https://www.eurodev.com/blog/europe-hvac-market https://www.eurodev.com/blog/europe-hvac-market
- tsss 3y agoThey're pushing heatpumps out of some misplaced effort to reduce emissions, not to improve climate control in homes. Nobody I know in Germany has AC except commercial buildings and rich people. They couldn't afford to run it anyway with the highest electricity prices in the world.
- throwaway392021 3y agoMost of the deaths happened in southern Europe, where temperatures above 32 °C are common in July and temperatures reaching 40 °C are not unheard of.