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Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • grozzle@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In some places where air conditioning is omnipresent they’re uncommon

      Not really… People don’t blast AC to their outdoor porch.

      AC is everywhere in the US, and we still have plenty of awnings

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Both of these are regional. Growing up in Ohio awnings were rare. And in some states ac is more or less common. I know in Washington’s Puget Sound region it’s more or less only in new construction because before the past decade or so it’s been mild all year.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thank you Alec from Technology Connection.

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  • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But he’s right though.

    Also heat pumps!

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Especially heat pumps!

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    • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Heat pumps are awesome!

      I first heard about them when I was praising space heaters as a 100% efficient machine, and I was delighted to hear that there’s somehow a more efficient heater XD

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also heat pumps!

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

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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