{"id":3153,"date":"2020-09-16T04:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2020-09-16T04:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:05:35","slug":"the-ac-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2020\/09\/the-ac-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"The AC conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(114\u00b0F, not far from the ocean, which is messed up)<\/p>\n

Hi so yes, it was pretty hot a couple weeks ago. I did skate in this temperature. For about 20 mn or so. It felt like I had someone holding lighters on high flame near my eyeballs while pushing my board. I know, I\u2019m crazy but also my body is quite well designed to sustain temperatures like this. Still, damn it\u2019s hot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So people want AC everywhere now. It\u2019s so wrong and here\u2019s how. I\u2019ll use my ex-neighborhood timeline as an example:<\/p>\n

1. No one has AC.<\/p>\n

2. They start construction of new buildings with AC everywhere. So we go from near zero AC units to literally hundreds.<\/em><\/p>\n

3. People abuse AC and turn their places into snow huts.<\/p>\n

4. Abusing AC means the AC units run at full capacity, which draws a lot of electricity. Remember, hundreds of electric engines are running on roofs 24\/7 now.<\/p>\n

5. We pay the price: power goes out for hours. Extra noise layer all around. And the worst part: all those electric engines HEAT UP the neighborhood. Coupled with taller buildings which reflect more sun and block winds, not enough vegetation to humidify a bit the air and temperature rises quite significantly (up to 12\u00b0C\/22\u00b0F apparently, which is huge).<\/p>\n

6. People are hotter and want even more AC. <\/p>\n

Rinse, repeat. It is a negative loop. No one cares, I know. But that\u2019s how our Quality of Life goes down.<\/p>\n

Buying an electric car isn\u2019t enough. Roughly 40% of CO2 emissions are due to heating\/cooling buildings and their construction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Solution: we must use passive cooling systems that we know how to do since BC. Low-rise buildings, natural ventilation, windows and trees.<\/p>\n

And for the days when we\u2019re gently frying in the 45\u00b0C+ vibe, well, we\u2019ll sit under a tree and drink water. We\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(114\u00b0F, not far from the ocean, which is messed up) Hi so yes, it was pretty hot a couple weeks ago. I did skate in this temperature. For about 20 mn or so. It felt like I had someone holding lighters on high flame near my eyeballs while pushing my board. I know, I\u2019m crazy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}