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Yes, which is why we should stop installing them and use air to air heat pumps instead, which do both. Bonus - you can throw your bulky, ugly radiators out too!
They are noisy though and many people including me would hate air heating, my airways suffer enough already.
What's wrong with heating air? It was the norm in every house I grew up in...
You'd think a bit of heat would be a bonus given the topic.
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> Blindly putting AC everywhere ... actually works just fine. How do you think mass AC adoption in the US happened? Window units work just fine. Fancy splits and central ducting can come later. Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
Look at the population graph of a city like Las Vegas. It basically didn't exist before the invention of AC. Window units don't work in most of Europe because our windows aren't compatible with them. If they were, I would have one . And again, it doesn't solve the core cause. If you want to cool down your home, your first step should be to stop heat from entering . If you can get the same result from €900 of shades a…
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Agree Especially as air conditioning are heat pumps. Would have helped solve the large dependency on natural gas heating for free as a byproduct!
In the UK my understanding is there are large subsidies for installing heat pumps in new builds - but you lose the subsidy if you include the cooling part. NB: a friend in construction explained this to me so I could be wrong but it would explain why even pretty fancy new apartments with heat pumps have no cooling.
Existing properties are eligible for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme which also now covers air to air (ie. reversible) systems.
There's still a bit of "what? no radiators?!" cultural resistance to overcome, but I'd expect this to fall away quickly as the climate continues to warm.
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> Arrogance isn't going to hold against the sun. You mean against human-induced global warming.
Keep dying from the heat while the oligarchs live their lives in villas near expensive lakes.
Not to mention that fungi start to adapt to higher temperatures so The Last of Us becomes a more possible scenario.
Europeans don’t get scolded enough for their resistance to air conditioning. In terms of accounting for preventable deaths, Greece has 2x more heat-related deaths per capita annually than Mississippi has gun deaths. By comparison, the worst US state for heat related deaths, Nevada - a literal desert - has >10x fewer deaths per capita than Greece.
What a pathetic
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They are noisy though and many people including me would hate air heating, my airways suffer enough already.
the interior units are very quiet in my experience... What's wrong with heating air? It was the norm in every house I grew up in...
My nose simply doesn't work with it, I get an allergy-like reaction that never stops (non-allergic rhinitis), and my wife has the same issue, and many people I know too.
Europeans don’t get scolded enough for their resistance to air conditioning. In terms of accounting for preventable deaths, Greece has 2x more heat-related deaths per capita annually than Mississippi has gun deaths. By comparison, the worst US state for heat related deaths, Nevada - a literal desert - has >10x fewer deaths per capita than Greece.
Unlike all of the things referenced in the Alanis Morrisette song, this is actually ironic
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40C in the Atlantic Spain with the Foehn effect (weather for today and tomorrow) would make 30C in Australia a joke. The humidity here it's hell. You feel 35C like ~42C in dry climates.
A lot of it is acclimatization. In Taipei this morning, at 9:30 it’s already 31C and 73% humidity, forecasted to hit 37C by noon. My first year living here this was unbearable, but now it’s tolerable. It’s just summer, not a spurious heat wave.
what are you implying here