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If you can open a window at all you can run a portable AC unit. Even just 3-4 inches is enough.
You'd have to have your windows open at all times with only a thin fabric blocking the opening to do that with most european windows. And then you still have your compressor inside generating heat.
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You don't need an external unit. Window AC (including casement sized) exists as well as portable AC.
Portable AC exists and people do use it, but it's loud and awkward with casement windows. This is a bandaid solution at best. Yet, I've seen them sold out in the summer, so people do use them.
yeah. lets plan the conference in one of the hottest weeks in the year and then cancel it due to hot weather. Well ... it speaks for their competence. It's like creating a Teams meeting about classified security issues on Windows 95 systems...
I didn't realize "hottest week of the year" in the UK was predictable enough that you could plan your conference schedule around it. Is there a known week during which nobody should plan any events at all now?
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A basic window AC unit costs a few hundred bucks.
Not anywhere I’m aware of. Maybe the outer unit, then you need the inside, you need a licensed technician to install it, you need it to not look hideous and tank your house price. There is several thousand euros. You also need a larger unit because the rooms are too large to take one of the smaller units.
And yes, it's true they're kinda ugly, but it's better than baking in the heat.
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I feel eaves are more to keep the drip line from rain from hitting the foundation than for any heat abatement. Typical spanish style roof will not have anything on the side that isn't sloping for example. Just sort of ends flush with the wall. Some don't have any eaves at all really.
Strange then then places with lots of rain and wind (Ireland, Netherlands come to mind) hate eaves. I guess it keeps builders in business. Ironically when I had a 200 year old thatched cottage it had 'eaves' by virtue of the thatch extending almost a meter from the wall. It had built up slowly over centuries of rethatching. My experience is mostly with Californian houses that definitely had eaves.
I found this example. https://images.pixels.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3...
Looks like the bottom row of masonry is actually failing here due to the rain damage and lack of upkeep on limestone paint. It will have to be repointed eventually.
Another thing with the califnornian spanish style home is the foundation is usually post and pier vs actual masonry exposed to a potential drip line. The one traditional californian design that tends to have eaves is the craftsman. I think it is a bit of an imported design from out east though, wasn't present in the mexican era. Some of these craftsman are on post and pier and don't really need them per say. But others actually have masonry foundations sometimes river rock foundations. I think there is also an aspect of venting the roof space through exposed rafter vents and you probably don't want water getting into unfinished wood.
When you look at even hotter climates, e.g. traditional adobe, no eaves there at all. Rafter beams just hanging out freely.
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I don’t get it. How much do AC units cost in EU? I can buy one for, like, $200-300.
You'll probably want a split unit. Minimum $600 including install in Eastern Europe, but more likely to be over 1k. Extrapolate salaries, cost of living and that's more like 3k in your money. That said magic happens when government subsidizes things. Friend spent 8k euro for 10kW solar + 15kWH battery system, of which government reimbursed 7.8k. 1.35k USD for entire system, when you'd pay this much for someone to plu…
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The process of moving heat from your house outside also creates excess heat, because no AC system is completely efficient (and it can't be because of the second law of thermodynamics).
Heat pumps have efficiency 300-400% at the moment, meaning they pump out MUCH more than they generate .
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Solar panels work by taking "high grade" energy from sunshine, doing some useful work with it, and increasing entropy by producing heat. That heat does radiate energy away at infrared wavelengths, but then greenhouse gases come into play. Greenhouse gases are very effective at reflecting infrared radiation back down to earth, so the heat is trapped.
Is this your objection to solar panels then? Let's burn more dinosaur juice instead of using passive, clean device.
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> us simply cannot have AC Im really curious how this works. Do standalone units not exist?
Some people rent. Some people can't afford one. Some people, like me, are in a short-term let in a country where it doesn't make sense to buy appliances if you're to leave after a few weeks. Now that I had to explain my personal living arrangement, am I please excused from the constant nagging about europoors and their stupid hangups about AC?
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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.
>It’s just summer, not a spurious heat wave. what are you implying here
