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
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