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user-inactivated  ·  3170 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Europe to America: Your love of air-conditioning is stupid

Wow what a terrible article. People in the US work from home, and in my experience in the EU they don't or rarely do. I grew up in a desert where stretches of weeks on end over 100F were the norm, and a week of 110F was not unusual at least once a year. And if you live south of the Ohio river and don't have A/C? Yea, no thanks. Remember, Spain is north of St. Louis, MO, and almost as far south as Indianapolis, IN.

I would like to see the US move to a more dense zoning philosophy and make more taller buildings; taller buildings are easier to heat and cool than single family dwellings. And we get the benefits of more mass transit. And condensers are becoming more and more efficient every few years. My electric bill dropped 10% in a very hot summer when I got the model from the 60's swapped out with a new one.

And last thing to rant about, the US should be moving to solar more and more where the A/C is needed. This is probably a whole topic in of itself.