I admit it... I guessed wrong. I thought it would have been the meat. I think I was so shocked by the environmental impact of meat when I read it years ago.... I assumed it was the headline here. Oh well.
That was my guess too, but having been in the southern US for a couple weeks now I definitely see why one would buy aircon as soon as they could afford it. In Montreal, it's only a couple bad weeks to suffer through and a fan works fine the rest of the time. The person that solves that, is gonna be crazy rich. Can someone page Elon Musk?
I hate air conditioning. It's the most annoying thing ever. It's loud. It makes the house rattle. Cold, uncomfortable air is blowing in. Whatever happened to getting a popsicle out of the freezer, putting on shorts and a t-shirt, and hanging down in the basement to watch TV where it's naturally 5-10 degrees colder than it is upstairs.
Refraining from writing a schpeil until later in the week, but just wanted to add a plug for Ground Source Heat Pumps. It's quiet, comfortable, and enormously eco-friendly (economy or ecosystem, both work). If in warmer climates, zoned Air Source Heat Pumps are cheaper and more efficient. Not worth it if snow stays on the ground where you live, imo.
Funky air. Stuffy. Weird. Not weird in the good way, like the Honk For Hemp guy downtown. That guy's an institution. We're talking Weird like that Jesus painting that's been at the Goodwill for the last three years. Off in a way you can't quite place, ya know? Did the artist mean for this to make me uncomfortable? Was it a mistake? Did they see it? Is it just me? It can't be just me, no one else is buying it either. Is that jaundice? Or is the lighting in here that bad? It's gotta be the lighting. Most of the units at our apartment complex (which actually does have quite nice airflow) never even opened their windows this spring. I started to hear a/c units rattling away by the time the temps were hitting the upper 60s. People man.Cold, uncomfortable air is blowing in.
Whatever happened to getting a popsicle out of the freezer, putting on shorts and a t-shirt, and hanging down in the basement to watch TV where it's naturally 5-10 degrees colder than it is upstairs.
Thing is, it's solved - ground source heat pumps totally work. I don't know if you're doing a lot of flying but at this point you can tell which buildings are new from the air because they have white roofs. It's just a matter of prioritizing a switch to something different than what we're doing.