Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat
Have you tried not being hot?
I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK)
Submitted 4 days ago by cRazi_man@europe.pub to [deleted]
https://europe.pub/pictrs/image/b54584dd-7a1a-4c1f-b6ac-f78c8c00b407.jpeg
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TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 days ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Heat cannot legally enter your body without your consent.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
If it’s legitimate heat, your body has ways of shutting that down.
terraquad@feddit.org 3 days ago
This is why we need “yes means yes”
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you open a window, that’s legally consent.
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
this is it. they’re trying
0ops@piefed.zip 4 days ago
👄
jobbies@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Billionaires who want to boil the proles alive hate this one trick
cRazi_man@europe.pub 4 days ago
I’m going to leave this running and open the Windows for a little while. Hope that helps all you folks out there.
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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.
jobbies@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
You’re doing gods work sir
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
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)
bouh@jlai.lu 3 days ago
So you volunteer to fund one for me and convince my landlord and the mayor to allows its installation ?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Don’t forget you need the compressor installed outside too!
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
So? If you want a fireplace you need a chimney.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
theconversation.com/the-new-climate-denial-using-…
The new climate denial? Using wealth to insulate yourself from discomfort and change
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They make my 2 fav things air conditioners and the lancer evo final
Botzo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Evo VI TME needs a word.
Source: I am old.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Oh that one can have a word with me anytime! Honestly id be happy with any Lancer
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
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.
FishFace@piefed.social 4 days ago
so you’re making the rest of us hotter >:(
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I don’t get the downvotes when you’re literally correct.
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
grahamja@reddthat.com 3 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.
grandma@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Heating the outdoors more than cooling the indoors
Yeah by like 400W which is peanuts compared to what the sun is doing
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 3 days ago
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?
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
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.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I have just one thing to say: 🖕
CelloMike@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Man I’d love to have a spare £850 too
Evotech@lemmy.world 4 days ago
More like a couple or three grand
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
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.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah, you can hop into your time machine and go back to the 90s when you could get an AC installed for 850quid.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 3 days ago
wow a shocking amount of people here have no idea how AC works
Tiral@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Let me fix that for you. A shocking number of Europeans have no idea how AC works.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
The northern half, basically. Down south we very well do. What a lot of people are unaware of is that an air source split costs peanuts, and lowers your heating bills like 300-400%. Yeah not 30, 300%
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
It makes the air cold. What’s there to understand?
It makes the room cold unfortunately to make the room cold you have to whack a sodding great hole in your wall. You explain that to the landlord who doesn’t care about your comfort, but they could care immensely about the wall having a hold on it.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
whack a sodding great hole
Ours have a hole about 50mm in diameter. It’s not going to bring your wall down and if you decide that you don’t need the efficient heating/cooling with minisplit-unit it’s easy enough to patch. I own the house, so I didn’t need to think nothing else than the location of the hole, but any sensible landlord would see a minisplit-unit as an increase of property value.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
It makes the air cold. What’s there to understand
With that logic, leaving your refrigerator door open should cool the room. But doing so would actually heat it up.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
It actually does require some basic knowledge of thermodynamics. Many people think “there are space heaters, so why not space coolers?” The reality is that the heat needs to be pumped out of the room (meaning hot air needs to be vented to the outside of the building).
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
What are you referring to the image? I assume it is piped out the wall to the other portion of the heat pump?
WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 days ago
no, here as in the posters.
ac units produce co2 and require the window to be open… and such
over_clox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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!
lobo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
valkyre09@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Great. You’ve got a hypothesis. Now work on it this weekend and report to the class on Monday for a practical.
bomibantai@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nah, one way to think about it is that by having a lower melting point, it “holds” more of the cold from the freezer.
qualia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Much colligative
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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
Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Unfortunately I bought a portable unit for my room. My reasoning, rooms gets to 38c and sleepless nights could mean sleeping through alarms, future health concerns and also, this heat won’t be going down any time soon.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Portable units are serviceable. Not nearly as good as split airco units but you can make them better by adding a second hose.
The air inlet for cooling the compressor needs to draw air in from outside instead of from the room the unit is in.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Portable units are absolute shit. For a little more you can buy a split like the OP’s picture, that is an Air source heat pump, which is 3 to 4 times more economical to run than any other heat source. Plus they can run off solar panels, if the roof is yours.
tomiant@piefed.social 2 days ago
Americans when they find one single thing to be smug against Europeans for, in spite of having no fucking clue why:
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 days ago
What is that?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Central air conditioning, but designed better. It’s services individual rooms instead of taking the temperature of the entire house from one location and then distributing based on that.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
That’s not what central air conditioning means. Central air conditioning has forced air ducts and a single chiller unit. This is called a mini-split or split unit system.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 days ago
I consider these superior to central air due to its ability for zone control.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Got you, a fancy cold-blowy box :)
I think I’ve seen one of those once in an office somewhere - though I feel like that one blew out warm air instead/as well (I may be mistaken).
Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Its called a heat pump or mini split. Really well made system for air conditioning.
Becoming more common in the states. Rest of the developed world already uses them.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
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.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 days ago
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 and they are particularly bad with overheating central heating and then opening their windows in winter!).
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 3 days ago
Beware that those things do not bring fresh air in, so if you close windows shut the Co2 levels would rise rather quickly and elevated co2 levels are linked to decreased cognitive abilities. I’d suggest running them with windows open if you can afford it.
Tiral@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Your house isn’t that air tight rofl.
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 3 days ago
It’s not, that’s why people dont suffocate indoors, you get tiny bit of fresh air in, a tiny bit of stale air out, so it has to stabilize eventually, but the level at which it’ll end up will definitely be in the impairment range. Brain fog, fatigue, heavy breathing, trouble concentrating, that kind of stuff.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even if it was, your lungs aren’t that really efficient either.
chefdano3@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Oh yeah? Then what do you do in the winter? Your heater doesn’t bring in fresh air either. Do you keep the windows open and let all your heat out?
Also what other air conditioners are you comparing against? Because window units also keep the air compressor outside the window with a barrier between the inside part, which takes in air from the room.
All HVAC systems recirculate the inside air, without bringing in fresh air. So please elaborate on which cooling method you would use during these 30°C/100°F days we have to stay cool?
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 3 days ago
All HVAC systems recirculate the inside air, without bringing in fresh air.
You’re wrong on that one. Ducted air conditioning systems do bring fresh air in, as well as positive inflow and heat recovery ventilation systems.
Burray_Mookchin@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I don’t understand your statement. I can have the windows closed all day with no AC and not worry about rising co2 levels. Why would it be different with this device running and circulating air? It’s not like it emits co2.
This looks like a wall mounted monoblock so you would be right but if it’s a split device with an outside unit, it does actually bring in fresh air. Either way, I’m pretty sure running an AC with the windows open is never good advice even if you can afford it.
The only point of concern would be if you have a gas heater for water etc. in your apartment and run a monoblock AC with just one exhaust hose blowing hot air outside while sucking in new air from the inside. In that case, the negative pressure created by the AC can potentially pull gas that would usually go out the chimney into your apartment.
drath@lemmy.drath.ru 3 days ago
I can have the windows closed all day with no AC and not worry about rising co2 levels
That’s the thing about co2, you don’t really notice it unless at extreme levels, but it definitely affects you, at pretty much all levels.
split device with an outside unit, it does actually bring in fresh air
That’s the common misconception. The lines running between minisplit units are for refrigirant, not air. It’s essentially a fridge without a box, with the room where theyre mounted becoming the box instead.
Why would it be different with this device running and circulating air? It’s not like it emits co2.
It doesn’t. It’s just that people who run AC’s usually shut everything closed and then exhale all that co2, which in an ordinary room with just 1 person in takes <1hr to reach noticeable impairment levels. AC or not, ventilation is important.
The only point of concern would be if you have a gas heater for water etc
You’re probably thinking about carbon monooxide, not carbon dioxide?
FG_3479@lemmy.world 3 days ago
CO2 always builds up in the room with no airflow, and when jt gets above 1000 PPM it starts causing fatigue.
plyth@feddit.org 3 days ago
I’d suggest running them with windows open if you can afford it.
With that attitude you can also justify private jets. It’s obscene to intensify global warming unnecessarily by wasting energy like this to escape global warming.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If that’s how your home was designed to be that tight, it was poorly designed.
Back in the 1980s or 90s, architects and engineers tried to design and build buildings as tight and efficient as possible. They quickly discovered that such buildings made people sick. They now design buildings to exchange a proscribed amount of air every hour to prevent what you are describing from happening.
So, if your home is properly designed and built, then it’s going to “leak” enough air per hour to keep the air heathy for habitation.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Shit why didn’t I think of that
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Alexa! Please set the room temperature to 72F… Would you like that in degrees centigrade?
Sorry, I can’t hear you! I’m making too much cooling noise!
Alexa, it’s too hot!.. I stopped cooling so I could hear you better! Totally not to send that data to Google for precessing.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Alexa… Google…
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ok Boomer
me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Surely that emits a lot of bad stuff into the atmosphere especially during a heatwave? Can’t be very good for the environment!
Burray_Mookchin@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
It works similar to a fridge with the inside of the fridge being your apartment and the outside being, well, the outside. All it does is circulate air over a heat sink filled with a refrigerant, which never leaves the system; it does not emit anything.
The fact that the power it uses comes from burning fossil fuels instead of green energy is really not the consumers fault and is part of the reason why the demand for these devices is skyrocketing in the first place (It’s getting hotter because of the climate change)
7101334@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I mean the electricity which powers it does. The unit itself does not, unless it was installed with a leak, in which case it won’t work for very long.
Thorry@feddit.org 4 days ago
MHI makes the best shit!
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
that’s only half of it
kn33@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Shit, really? Wow, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting to find out the rest.
qualia@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The electricity bill I’m guessing.