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Rooskie91@discuss.online 16 hours ago
Awning. They’re a great way to reduce the need for AC by providing shade in treeless regions.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
DmMacniel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Thank you Alec from Technology Connection.
deacon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
But he’s right though.
Also heat pumps!
DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Especially heat pumps!
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Also heat pumps!
Isn’t that not just another word for AC in this context?
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?
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Basically an energy shield protecting against the giant uncontrollable fusion reactor in the sky.
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…
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
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
But AC wouldn’t cover the balcony (which here is the most common usecase for awnings)?
grozzle@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
they still help block sunshine from heating your south wall, which reduces the need for AC indoors.
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.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I just don’t know how its named in English, where I’m from they’re toldos
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.
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.