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This normally wouldn't be worth a thread, but I am having finely aged crow for breakfast:
!nonchuds I am never taking your side again.
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Ban AC in private homes. It's a complete waste of energy in western countries.
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Those homes aren't built with passive cooling in mind
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One can cope with up to 40Β°C easily. It doesn't get that hot in the western countries.
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Wrong
Trapped heat bb
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Are you confusing Alaska with the continental US
We get heat for 4 months a year that would melt the europoor and cold for another 4 months that would freeze them solid
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Ye half the Euro population would die in a week if they had to live in Arizona during the summer
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Is stopping thermal bridging and proper air-sealing envelopes a foreign concept to you lower 48 celsπ€
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We're going to have a full weak of 40 degrees weather here But I agree that too many weaklings turn on the AC at absurd temperatures
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I've found myself using it for anything 30+ nowadays. In my defense I usually run it for an hour then keep it off for one.
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it gets over 40C in illinois a few times per year and we're a northern state
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STFU europoid it probably never gets hotter than 30C where youre at. Come stay in the southwestern US for a summer without AC.
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No.
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And that's a GOOD thing
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Yea trillionaires can't ride on their million dollar yachts conscience free if a AC runs somewhere in Texas
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