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Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  80% of the flats where I live have one above their balcony - and we are not even close to treeless.

  I was really bewildered by the idea that someone might not know what these are…

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In some places where air conditioning is omnipresent they’re uncommon. There’s a technology connections video about them that touches on it

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But AC wouldn’t cover the balcony (which here is the most common usecase for awnings)?

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      • grozzle@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        they still help block sunshine from heating your south wall, which reduces the need for AC indoors.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Balconies aren’t really a thing for most people in the American Midwest, which is where I’m from. You have porches and patios, but those are weather permitting structures and they’re mostly used when it’s a bit later so it’s not too bright.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just don’t know how its named in English, where I’m from they’re toldos

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean you have trees, so they’re mostly on the balcony. I live in a large city (not many trees) of mostly row homes, and they’re on like every window of the side of the houses that face the sun. Not just patios.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here in Germany we have outside jalousie blinds on every window that also serve that purpose during summer.

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• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thank you Alec from Technology Connection.

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But he’s right though.

    Also heat pumps!

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Especially heat pumps!

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also heat pumps!

      Isn’t that not just another word for AC in this context?

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

        Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

        As someone who is a scientist who studies A/C’s, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls heat pumps A/C’s. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

        If you’re saying “A/C family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of HVACae, which includes things from fans to swamp coolers to radiators.

        So your reasoning for calling a heat pump a A/C is because random people “call the heat exchanger thingies A/C?” Let’s get refridgerators and freezers in there, then, too.

        Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A heat pump is a heat pump and a member of the A/C family. But that’s not what you said. You said a heat pump is a A/C, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the heat exchanger family A/C’s, which means you’d call refridgerators, freezers, and other heat exchangers A/C’s, too. Which you said you don’t.

        It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

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• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Basically an energy shield protecting against the giant uncontrollable fusion reactor in the sky.

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