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Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat by vonmoltke on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:35AM (#20695365)
My house in Dallas only rose by about one degree per hour during the day when the A/C was off, even on the hottest days. It was pretty well-insulated, and the large trees around it helped.

> humid Texas summer

This is probably the warped idea of "humid" I got from growing up in South Florida, but Dallas was rarely ever humid.

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Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat by humanrebar on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:58AM (#20695591)
Dallas is relatively humid, but not Florida, no.

It also doesn't have the constant sea breezes and incidental rain that most of Florida enjoys.

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Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat by londons_explore on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:22AM (#20703263)
Build your houses out of stone rather than wood, and they'll have a 10+ tonne thermal mass. Just a few inches of insulation around that on all sides, and the temperature barely varies day to night.
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Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat by shliachtx on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:31PM (#20697177)
Houston is as humid as it gets though.
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