• thepiguy@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    As someone who has an AC, I have 2 thoughts.

    1. It’s not useful for summer, I have never used it to cool a room, opening the windows works fine.
    2. It is cheaper than a normal heater, and works slightly better in the earlier months of winter. Right now, it is too cold outside for it to work at its best efficiency, using a normal heater is better in this case.

    We had ours installed back when the price of gas from Russia skyrocketed, it was way more affordable to use it for heating then.

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      3 days ago

      There is pretty much no place in Europe where a heat pump would not be more efficient.

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      3 days ago

      Lmao typical europoor claiming ac doesn’t cool a room. Jesus Christ and they say American education is worst in the world.

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        3 days ago
        1. It’s bad for the environment in multiple ways

        2. If you’re too hot, toughen up a bit? Are you just not gonna go outside for a while season?

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          3 days ago

          Might wanna look into when certain temperature/climate condition begin impacting peoples mental health, then cross compare that to the moderate estimates for what Europe will look like in 10 years.

          Also, “blue ocean event” is v relevant here. Is wild how fast all the icey stuff in the world is going bye bye, and what the implications are for future global heat intake once that albido effect from the ice stops reflecting all them sunrays. Thats the thing I don’t think a lotta folks realize when it comes to climate change… How fast it’s coming and how much it’s gonna fuck people

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            2 days ago
            1. Indigenous groups lived in places like Death Valley or the Australian outback for thousands of years, where the temperature gets above even the worst European heatwave temperatures daily for whole seasons.

            2. If you’re concerned about climate change, you should realize how bad of an idea it is to run extremely energy intensive machines filled with environmently harmful refrigerants 24/7, which also contribute to increasing the ambient outdoor temperature and the heat island effect.