Re:Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billio...
by KozmoNau7 on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:40AM
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> HVAC solves climate control
At a huge energy cost, because we insist on brute-forcing comfortable climates in cookie-cutter buildings, instead of learning from vernacular/indigenous architecture and using modern technology to augment on top of that.
The real crying shame is that air conditioning units could be used as heat pumps (which can be extremely efficient) with just a few added parts, but hardly anyone does that.
Re:Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billio...
by zdragnar on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:23AM
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I looked into it, but the added cost isn't really worth the effort where I live. They have such a narrow effective temperature range that it would hardly see any use as such.
At a huge energy cost, because we insist on brute-forcing comfortable climates in cookie-cutter buildings, instead of learning from vernacular/indigenous architecture and using modern technology to augment on top of that.
The real crying shame is that air conditioning units could be used as heat pumps (which can be extremely efficient) with just a few added parts, but hardly anyone does that.