Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK)

FishFace@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t get the downvotes when you’re literally correct.

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  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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    • Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dunno about your country but mine is far from 100% reneable

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      • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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.

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• grahamja@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

  You can always plant more trees, paint all the buildings brighter colors, live underground, or move north?

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Passive_daytime_radiative_cool…

  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.

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  • grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors

    Yeah by like 400W which is peanuts compared to what the sun is doing

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    • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        “Someone alread took a shit in the victims head so its okay if i piss on his leg no?”

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A typical air conditioner consumes 1kW, and on top of that heats the outside by however much the inside is cooled.

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      • Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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

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