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Re:Nearly 90% of U.S. households used air conditioning in 2020 by tenpies on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:57AM (#32664005)
The implied unfairness there becomes a bit more fictional when you consider that an electricity user in Washington state isn't exactly competing with an energy user in Gash-Barka region.

Where such a comparison does become intensely valuable is when the EU says things like "we will do whatever it takes" in relation to energy and food. The implication there is "we will out-bid anyone" and "anyone" happens to be Africa and much of Asia. That's quite a horrendous way of using your currency to export the famine and freezing that you deserve to people who had no say in your bad policy decisions.

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Re:Nearly 90% of U.S. households used air conditioning in 2020 by fulafel on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:00PM (#32664092)
From the emissions POV it's not fictional at all, since the marginal electricity use is fossil based. All fossils use is eating at the same global emissions quota we can efford to stave off the worst climate catastrophe.

(Or if in some corner of the US renewables production is reduced before fossil sources when load lightens, that's even a bigger wrong)

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