Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat
I installed both AC and solar panels when heat got too dangerous for my kids.
Yes, many everyday problems can be solved with money, money were literally invented for that exact purpose. Other problems can be solved with time, for example - trees need a fuckton of time to grow, but I still replaced most of the grass in my garden with trees and bushes. I will most likely never rest under their shade in my life, but is that really important to see the benefits fast?
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
There’s a ton of variants of this, and saying (in a form or another) apparently goes back to 1700s.
Mark Twain, actually.
That particular quote is from D. Elton Trueblood. Mark Twain said “The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second best time is now.”. A bit different twist, but the same idea.
There’s also (alledeg) Indian proverb: “Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit.”. And many other variations of the same over the last 300 years or so.
Hmmm wasn’t there also chinese proverb that said “plan for a year? - rice, plan for ten years? - orchard, plan for 100 years? - education”
I was actually being faeticious, pointing out how half of the quotes in the internet are attributed to Mr. Clemens, half to Groucho Marx, and half to Tsun Zu.
The new climate denial? Using wealth to insulate yourself from discomfort and change
Converting electricity into heat via silicon (ironically data centers turn electricity into heat with incredible efficiency) then moving that heat outside with HVAC units (heat exchangers again, the best way to move heat outside).
Then this sunufabich buys an ac
I have a portable AC for the main part of my house and a window unit in my bedroom. Where I live in the US it is literally a necessity. People without AC can get heat stroke and die in their own homes here in the hotter parts of the summer
I’ll have to get one at some point. It just seems a lot for the one week a year it’s needed.
Pretty spent this heatwave with a damp cloth wrapped around an ice pack and stuffed under my plums. Working from home is no fun when it’s 35C in your room. I even stole the cat’s cooling mat at one point (she hated it anyway) to use as a pillow.
It’s not just for cooling. It is very efficient at heating and warms up the whole room very quickly.
In the winter we would wake up to a pre-warmed room. Didn’t bother turning on the whole house central heating. The wife and I would get dressed in this room (and attached bathroom) and then quickly grab a hot drink and toast from the kitchen and leave the house, and then you save on heating the whole house in the morning. We would also turn off central heating really early in the evening. The house retains heat till we were ready to just chill in the bedroom, and then if it felt too chilly we could turn on the AC heating for a little while. My wife was using an electric fan heater every night despite central heating anyway and needed a blast of extra heating in the bedroom when she always felt particularly cold. Between getting this AC, buying my wife an electric blanket and changing to an electricity tariff that gives quarter price overnight (it costs almost nothing to run this overnight on hot nights)… A friend in a similar sized house has been amazed that our energy bills are one third of his (although we are particularly frugal with energy (15 min of water heating is all we need in 24 hours) and they are particularly bad with energy (overheating central heating and then opening their windows in winter!)).
Americans when they find one single thing to be smug against Europeans for, in spite of having no fucking clue why:
that’s only half of it
Shit, really? Wow, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting to find out the rest.
The electricity bill I’m guessing.
No, it’s a split ac, the other half is literally out of the picture(hopefully out of tne house)
Protip: condensers function better when its cooler. You can save money by putting the condenser in the neighboring, air-conditioned apartments.
Which is why most people cant get one of these because their landlords are shitheads.
They make portable minisplits now.
As far as I know they are mosty designed for vertically sliding windows, uncommon in Europe. For american style sliding windows a think they are brilliant.
That’s not really a portable AC, or even a minisplit. I am talking about a portable AC with two parts (thus called a split unit), one for the outside that dumps the heat, and one on the inside blowing cool air. They are connected with flexible pipes.
Or just portable, single unit ACs. I got one of those recently.
It blasts hot air through a duct that hopefully you’re able to direct outside while preventing outside air from getting in. Also noisy as heck, since the full unit is inside the house, and not as efficient as split units, but they do work…
Portables are hot garbage. Get a proper air source wall split. Cheap and immensly cheaper as a heat source that anything you use right now.
while preventing outside air from getting in
If that worked you’d slowly turn your dwelling into a vacuum chamber :-)
The same volume of air will enter your home in one way or the other, the important bit is that it’s cooler than the exhausted air. In particular you don’t want the hot exhaust to recirculate back in.
Ideally you’d get medium warm air from another room into yours, and warm outside air into an unoccupied room.
Yeah those are much more common and way cheaper, but also much less efficient.
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Yeah with the current heatwave that’s to be expected. Just get one during fall or winter, and be ready for the next year.
I see, like a heat pump.
? It is a heat pump
Heat pumps are like heat pumps
They fucking better be
Yes, ac is a heat pump that can only work in one direction of cooling.
Not necessarily, a lot can reverse and pump the heat inside
Have you tried not being hot?
Heat cannot legally enter your body without your consent.
If you open a window, that’s legally consent.
If it’s legitimate heat, your body has ways of shutting that down.
Yes, that’s called death…
This is why we need “yes means yes”
this is it. they’re trying
👄
Billionaires who want to boil the proles alive hate this one trick
I’m going to leave this running and open the Windows for a little while. Hope that helps all you folks out there.
How considerate. For instance, my friend’s Internet went out today. I mailed him a cup of Internet, he should be good to go on Monday when it arrives.
A whole cup, eh? Make sure he doesn’t spend all that internet in one place!
You’re doing gods work sir
Why don’t we solve global warming that way? Just put a bunch of A/C units outside and turn them all on in the summer! (/s, obvs)
They make my 2 fav things: air conditioners and the lancer evo final
Evo VI TME needs a word.
Source: I am old.
Oh that one can have a word with me anytime! Honestly id be happy with any Lancer
Any lancer or any evo specifically?
Because the standard lancer is pretty boring
My dream car (that i could most realistically get) is the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Final Edition 2016. I love Mitsubishi’s transmission and there’s just something about how the Lancer Evo Final looks. I love rally and ideally i’d love the Mitsubishi Lancer WRC (or anything from the Group B Rally era lol)
Forester XT SG ( STi if possible) would like a word. Actually the SF with the manual transmission and the high/low lever that worked in all speeds (effectively 8 speed manual, if you knew how to use it, with the most forgiving AWD) was a fucking blast. I owned one, and it was a blast. A soccer-mom-looking station wagon/early SUV that would humble BMWs daily.
So you volunteer to fund one for me and convince my landlord and the mayor to allows its installation ?
Don’t forget you need the compressor installed outside too!
So? If you want a fireplace you need a chimney.
Everyone knows what a fireplace is.
Man I’d love to have a spare £850 too
More like a couple or three grand
Splits are unreasonably expensive, and since there is now a compressor sitting somewhere outside and a bunch of piping, more stuff to maintain/go wrong. I remember buying my condo and seeing the split and thinking how convenient it is, but little did I realize after ten years the whole thing would need replacing. For what it cost, I could buy a new 5000 BTU unit every year and throw it out and break even after ten years.
Yeah, you can hop into your time machine and go back to the 90s when you could get an AC installed for 850quid.
Here in the USA, south Mississippi, it’s fucking hot as hell as well!
And unfortunately, we’re borrowing my mom’s car for now, waiting for a part we ordered for the truck to come in. Mom’s car has 4 windows, but only the front passenger window goes down, and no air conditioner… 🥵
I’ve taken to bringing a cooler with us, with bare minimum of 2 bottles of frozen fresh water, plus 2 bottles of frozen saturated saltwater.
Why frozen salt water? Well it’s definitely not for drinking, that’s for sure. But frozen saltwater freezes at like -10⁰C, which makes them excellent ice packs to keep things in the cooler extra cold for around 6 hours or so…
Stay cool out there everybody!
I think the salt is actually worse for keeping thing cool longer.
Most of the cooling capacity of the ice is in phase change from solid to liquid. The salt is moving it to -10 which means bigger gap from outside temperature. So the cold escapes quicker.
If you use normal water it will climb to 0 faster, but stay there longer.
Great. You’ve got a hypothesis. Now work on it this weekend and report to the class on Monday for a practical.
You’re wrong, look up old school ways of making ice cream. Ask an old person if they remember biting into a salt crystal when having old fashioned ice cream.
Salt for ice cream makes sense because you need the lower temperature.
Question is if it lasts longer. Couldn’t find any info on that.
Nah, one way to think about it is that by having a lower melting point, it “holds” more of the cold from the freezer.
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. But what you said was not a logical scientific argument.
Much colligative
so you’re making the rest of us hotter >:(
I’m running my air con in reverse cycle so the outside bit gets cold. Just doing my part to help offset old mates selfishness 🫡
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
You can always plant more trees, paint all the buildings brighter colors, live underground, or move north?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cooling
PDRC can be contrasted with conventional compression-based cooling systems (e.g., air conditioners) that consume substantial amounts of energy, have a net heating effect (heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors), require ready access to electric power and often employ coolants that deplete the ozone layer or have a strong greenhouse effect.
Yikes.
Heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors
Yeah by like 400W which is peanuts compared to what the sun is doing
Also: if a big box store with high ceilings is going to cool the entire building to 68F, I’m not going to fret over cooling my modestly-sized home.
“Someone alread took a shit in the victims head so its okay if i piss on his leg no?”
A shit in the victim’s head? That’s rough.
A typical air conditioner consumes 1kW, and on top of that heats the outside by however much the inside is cooled.
and on top of that heats the outside by however much the inside is cooled.
Yeah but that heat is merely redistributed, it’s not like it’s adding to the total temperature
I don’t get the downvotes when you’re literally correct.
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Air conditioning is literally just moving heat from one space to another even at scale the air conditioning from homes is not enough to make any meaningful difference.
Now if we want to get pedantic the stress that it puts on electrical grids that are not decarbonized and have to fire up natural gas and coal plants harder sure it is technically making everything else hotter
So if we ignore everything but the actual physical heat coming out of the radiator then yes, it’s really not that much, but unfortunately these units do not exist in a vacuum, and instead contribute to 3% of global emissions.
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Dunno about your country but mine is far from 100% reneable
100% renewable, nuts. I’d actually be thrilled just to get back to 1990s levels of coal and oil-based power plants. Even that seems so far out of reach as to be a fantasy, though.
Exactly
I have just one thing to say: 🖕
Hey one of you finally realize that air conditioning is necessary to sleep at night when it gets really hot, a problem which is only going to continue to grow worse thanks to climate change. At least until the ocean conveyor breaks completely and y’all start freezing your balls off like you live in Siberia.
Maybe invest in a reversible heat pump so you’re ready!
I wish; I rent, so it’s whatever they’ve given me - specifically a window unit currently.
I think the vast majority, if not all, splits sold in Europe are reversible. Currently, the majority are air source heat pumps, even if buyers, and often sellers, are unaware. That means that they pump 3-5 units of heat or cold for every unit of energy, making them, by far, the most economical heating and cooling available. They are cheap, too, like under 300€ in Spain, 400-500 for a top of the line Mitsubishi, or Daikin. Burning gas in the winter to heat a home is dumb.
