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We're not setup for hot weather, so we resort to all kinds of things to keep us and our homes cool.

Apart from ordering fans from Amazon, what else have you been doing to keep cool?

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[โ€“] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just looked up the soapstone thing... looks like Finland did a good job with one recently

[โ€“] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah it's pretty smart... And incredibly simple... Way too low profit for my country's blood (Canada) not to mention which duolopoly would own it in Canada? It can't exist as a competing business strategy. It either needs to be blocked with regulations (regs captured by industry and capital...) or it needs to be a pet project of one of our oligarchs that never grows beyond a pilot plant battery that maybe gets used to make chemicals or something via industrial heat.