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Re:Nearly 90% of U.S. households used air conditioning in 2020 by tyoma on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:00PM (#32664089)
Thank you! I find the opinion that AC is somehow a decadent luxury but heating is essential to be a very Northern US/Eurocentric view.

From a pure energy usage perspective, it may make more sense to live in a warm climate that never needs heating versus a cold climate that never needs AC.

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Re:Nearly 90% of U.S. households used air conditioning in 2020 by Sharlin on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:09PM (#32664234)
Yes, heating consumes a lot of energy. On the other hand, most buildings even in fairly cool climates are absolute sieves when it comes to energy efficiency, mostly because energy has been artificially cheap, historically. It's possible to construct buildings that require very little heating, but of course turning all the existing buildings into Passivhäuser overnight is not really a reasonable proposition.
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