Neoliberalism at its peak
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Well sleeping babies have a dramatically higher chance of sudden death above a certain temperature. So yeah, keep your newborns cool.
As a native Floridian, it blew my mind that AC was not the default everywhere. I did know that the only legal requirement for a home was heat and water, but when does your heat source not also cool the home?
There are homes in Florida that don't have ac. We get stories all the time of old folks dying there in heat waves.
You floridians have AC's as a standard? So you can wrestle alligators and tame lions (before jumping from a plane ofc) in the cold? Nice.
Always wonder what would have happened if the government put the energy it put into arresting people for demanding better insulation, into better insulation instead of arresting them.
That's commie talk, son.
This means that safety from extreme heat is a privilege not a right.
Access to A/C for everyone is a progressive measure.
Sounds like "the plan" is working then. The poors die of heat stroke, dehydration, or other ill effects of climate change so the rich have a smaller population to subdue.
Wouldn't buying an air conditioner be cheaper?
So get planning consent, find someone who has a conditioner in stock, find an engineer to install it, all in a few hours?
This comment is hilarious because a heat pump and mini-split system can be installed by basically anyone in a few hours. It only requires a single hole drilled through an exterior wall, to reach the outside where your heat pump goes. After that, it’s just a matter of running hoses to the various mini-splits that are bolted to the walls in your various rooms. And if you really want to be economical, you can strategically cool certain rooms (like the bedrooms and office) while leaving the rest of the house hot. That way you’re not needing to cool the entire house, you’re just creating a few safe havens where you’ll spend most of your time.
And plumbing, also since this post is about the UK you are probably not allowed to do half the things w/o license and the building you're living on is historical so doesn't allow external unit
You guys need an engineer to install a basic wall mounted AC with a small duct or even better one that doesn't require a duct at all and is just mountable? Or better yet, the various portable AC units you can buy that come on wheels and follow you into every room.... I get the availability factor I guess.
a window unit can be installed in less than 5 minutes, no engineer necessary and because its a window unit it's easily removed so you shouldn't need planning permission
Few houses have compatible windows.
I'm guessing window units are not common then? Or you have different windows.
Nah, they have these skinny ones that are mounted on walls near the ceiling.
That’s a mini-split, which is technically a heat pump instead of an air conditioner. They can be extremely energy efficient for heating (they can easily reach above 100% efficiency in terms of power usage vs heat production) because you’re not actually generating heat, you’re just moving it around. If you want to cool a room, you pump it outside. And if you want to heat a room, you pump heat in from outside. You can even bury the heat lines if you have the yard for it, and (as long as you bury deeper than the local frost line) you’ll be able to use geothermal to get efficient heating even when it’s frigid outside.
We have windows that open out.
As an Aussie visiting Europe that regularly deals with these temperatures... This is so much more uncomfortable than an Aussie summer. But it's an easy fix: make AC a standard measure (the amount of shops and restaurants here that are high 30s INSIDE is something I've never seen before), make free drinking water a legal requirement, and make public toilets a thing too (so people don't need to worry about hydrating!)
SUBSIDIZE HEATPUMPS!
You don't need to. In Spain you can buy air source heat pumps split units that cost less than the installation, and that will heat in the winter for 1/3-1/4 the cost of any other heating method.
What's Spain got to do with it though?
Costs should be in the same range. Also, in the UK, heat pumps have an immense advantage in the UK. They can double as a dehumidifier.
Stories like this make me wish I knew how to make people care as much about things that actually matter as they do about whatever mean thing a politician said the other day.
TBF the mean politicians are often climate change deniers as well.
Honestly from someone that has a lot of trouble dealing with the heat I hope people become more aware of how dangerous heat can become. So tired of hearing people complain about the cold like the heat is aways good. I don't have a heater, in fact I can sleep with the windows open in negative temperatures (celsius) but I NEED an air conditioner in the summer, but people always complain like is some sort of luxury, no is not, I don't tell people during the winter that heating is a luxury despite the fact that I don't have any heating
Cold is objectively better than heat. There are many cheap and easy ways to heat yourself up that can be applied in most situations, compared to cooling yourself down where you're basically down to an AC or a fan.
Yeah, I live in the southern US where it gets proper hot, and I definitely prefer the cold. You can always put more layers on. Generating heat is extremely easy from an engineering standpoint. There are even ways to do it chemically for things like reusable hand warmers.
But holy hell, when it’s hot hot, there are only so many things you can do to avoid it. Unlike the cold, there is a limit to how many layers you can take off. And if you’re in the sun, taking off layers may actually make you hotter in the long term.
And SWEAT!!!!!
Same!
I also hate the term 'lovely weather' for such hot days. Lovely and people dieing from heat exhaustion is an awkward combo.
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just wait until data centers 1. take all the electricity 2. cause heat islands 3. make utility bill go up 4x
Does the UK not even sell window unit acs? Or are they like super expensive over there? In the states you can buy a small one for like $200.
Window unit ACs work well when your windows open by sliding. Most US windows are that way, but UK windows are almost always hinged at the sides or tops which makes mounting a window unit effectively impossible.
So either you have to get an expensive fully plumbed-in unit, or a portable unit that stays inside the room and has vent hoses going out your window. Which are not ideal either.
It's been the case to now that extreme heat has been rare enough and short enough in duration that everyone has simply dealt with it. When it's 5 days in a year then you suffer a bit but quickly forget about it afterwards.
But times are changing, and we will have to soon change the way our homes are designed too.
Sounds like it’s simply an engineering issue that nobody has bothered to solve. You could 100% design a window unit that would fit a hinged window. But no company has bothered to do so.
You could always do a heat pump mini-split system instead. Those only require a single hole drilled to the exterior, which then gets used to run hoses into the house from the head unit. The whole thing can usually be installed in a few hours, because it’s basically “drill hole, bolt everything down where it needs to go, run hoses and power, seal hole with expanding foam”
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