They’re completely clueless on what to do when it’s hot but they also built their entire society and infrastructure on the idea it would never be above 75F.
I’d take 100F in Florida over 85 in London. Florida knows it’s hot and we designed our society for that. Unfortunately that means car dependent infrastructure but still. In
Florida in the summer you leave the air conditioning only for short stints where usually your next air conditioning is known. I walk from my door to my car. From my car to the grocery store. Or even at worst from my door to the bus, and bus to my work. If you’re gonna be outside for an extended time it’s probably for a water based activity like a pool or beach.
In England there’s no escaping it. You’re hot at home because there’s no AC. You’re hot outside. You’re hot on the bus. You’re hot as fuck in the underground station. You’re hot on the train. You’re hot at your workplace. Grocery stores in my limited experience did usually have AC but basically nothing else did. They barely know it’s possible to put ice in water to make it colder.
They’re gonna have to figure it out real quick if they want to stop fucking dying every time a warm breeze blows towards that cursed island.
The gulf stream made a relatively mild and temperate year round climate a reality for like, what, 10000+ years? Then perfidious Albion had to go and invent capitalist industrialization and look where it got them, couldve been better if the English working class had risen up and seized power at some point in the last 150 years but I guess pretending they were still a world-bestriding empire and the treat train were more important.
The problem with home AC is that we literally can't afford to run it at these energy prices. I actually have one, sitting next to me right now, picked it up 4 or 5 years ago when it was a bit more affordable to run. I will not run the thing because it will cost me an arm and a leg now.
Yeah to use AC to make your society not crumble you need to prepare the infrastructure for that to work. That doesn’t just mean having air condition in buildings, it also means having energy security, a functional grid, etc.
If only the UK had half a century+ to prepare for this and build energy infrastructure like nuclear plants so that things wouldn’t completely collapse if a country across a continent/an ocean (Whether you blame Russia or the US) decides you can’t have natural gas anymore
It's wild that the Egyptians and Persians invented passive cooling three millennia ago and architects still build the same rectangular boxes to this day because that's economical somehow.
Deep water source cooling is also neglected because everybody in a coastal city running a AC in the same atmosphere is somehow more economical then pumping cool water from the oceans.
Despite all this, capitalism isn't dying fast enough to stop it taking the planet with it.
It’s wild that the Egyptians and Persians invented passive cooling three millennia ago and architects still build the same rectangular boxes to this day because that’s economical somehow.
Don't worry, mayos will catch on in a few years and claim they invented it
What makes it even worse is that it's temperate year round. Like I think cold places might be better equipped to deal with a (low humidity) heatwave, since at least closing your windows at sunrise with good insulation with keep your home cooler than outside for a while.
They’re completely clueless on what to do when it’s hot but they also built their entire society and infrastructure on the idea it would never be above 75F.
I’d take 100F in Florida over 85 in London. Florida knows it’s hot and we designed our society for that. Unfortunately that means car dependent infrastructure but still. In
Florida in the summer you leave the air conditioning only for short stints where usually your next air conditioning is known. I walk from my door to my car. From my car to the grocery store. Or even at worst from my door to the bus, and bus to my work. If you’re gonna be outside for an extended time it’s probably for a water based activity like a pool or beach.
In England there’s no escaping it. You’re hot at home because there’s no AC. You’re hot outside. You’re hot on the bus. You’re hot as fuck in the underground station. You’re hot on the train. You’re hot at your workplace. Grocery stores in my limited experience did usually have AC but basically nothing else did. They barely know it’s possible to put ice in water to make it colder.
They’re gonna have to figure it out real quick if they want to stop fucking dying every time a warm breeze blows towards that cursed island.
The gulf stream made a relatively mild and temperate year round climate a reality for like, what, 10000+ years? Then perfidious Albion had to go and invent capitalist industrialization and look where it got them, couldve been better if the English working class had risen up and seized power at some point in the last 150 years but I guess pretending they were still a world-bestriding empire and the treat train were more important.
The problem with home AC is that we literally can't afford to run it at these energy prices. I actually have one, sitting next to me right now, picked it up 4 or 5 years ago when it was a bit more affordable to run. I will not run the thing because it will cost me an arm and a leg now.
Yeah to use AC to make your society not crumble you need to prepare the infrastructure for that to work. That doesn’t just mean having air condition in buildings, it also means having energy security, a functional grid, etc.
If only the UK had half a century+ to prepare for this and build energy infrastructure like nuclear plants so that things wouldn’t completely collapse if a country across a continent/an ocean (Whether you blame Russia or the US) decides you can’t have natural gas anymore
It's wild that the Egyptians and Persians invented passive cooling three millennia ago and architects still build the same rectangular boxes to this day because that's economical somehow.
Deep water source cooling is also neglected because everybody in a coastal city running a AC in the same atmosphere is somehow more economical then pumping cool water from the oceans.
Despite all this, capitalism isn't dying fast enough to stop it taking the planet with it.
Don't worry, mayos will catch on in a few years and claim they invented it
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What makes it even worse is that it's temperate year round. Like I think cold places might be better equipped to deal with a (low humidity) heatwave, since at least closing your windows at sunrise with good insulation with keep your home cooler than outside for a while.