Re:Improving air conditioner efficiency could reduce worldwi...
by illegalsmile on Thursday July 13, 2017 @06:07PM
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Turns out that the GP could adapt to sleeping in 90F temperatures as the human body is adaptable. After a few weeks you'd be used to it and it wouldn't matter. The Creek/Seminole did it in the southeast.
You obviously could live there... it would just be unpleasant.
I lived a year in Singapore where temperatures were in the 80-90 range. I stayed on-campus at NUS and was lucky to have a room with A/C, but it wasn't common. The majority of students make do with big fans and windows. I remember working next to a campus Starbucks outside, marveling at how well designed it was to make students moderately comfortable without A/C. There was an enormous fan, and the area was covered and designed to facilitate air flow.
After my time there I came back to the U.S. and can much more readily handle persistently hot temperatures. It's fairly unusual to expect it to be cool all the time.
I also just got back from a trip to Oman where it was routinely above 90 or 100 all day long, and people there make do without A/C as well.